Bowman v. State

Undercofler, Justice.

Carl Bowman was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. The appeal is from this judgment. Held:

l.The appellant contends that the trial judge acted prematurely and in gross abuse of discretion when he discharged the jury after 31 minutes of deliberation on the appellant’s sentence and imposed the sentence himself. The appellant argues that the trial judge did not allow the jury a reasonable time to deliberate and that this deprived him of due process and equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the…