State v. Mowell

NATURE OF CASE

Jamie Earl Mowell was found guilty by a jury of second degree murder, use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, in association with the shooting death of Jeremy Cade. After a motion for new trial was overruled, the district court sentenced Mowell to a term of imprisonment and Mowell appealed. This appeal involves Mowell’s challenges to a number of the court’s procedural and evidentiary rulings, as well as his challenges to the instructions given to the jury and the sufficiency of the evidence that led to his second degree murder…