Legal Opinion
Bowers v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 9, 1983No. 131, September Term, 1982PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge.
Appellant, Marselle J. Bowers, was convicted of murder in the first degree by a Charles County jury. The jury subsequently determined that he should be sentenced to death. We shall affirm the conviction. However, we shall vacate the death sentence because the jury failed to find a mitigating factor which the State at trial conceded the evidence showed. The case reaches us pursuant to the provisions of Maryland Code (1957, 1982 Repl.Vol.) Art. 27, § 414 stating that whenever the death penalty is imposed we shall review the sentence.
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The basic facts are not in dispute. Pursuant to…
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