Bowman v. State

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge

(retired), Specially Assigned.

The issue on this appeal is the legality of a sentence of twenty-five years without eligibility for parole imposed on Randolph Lewis Bowman upon his conviction by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County of robbery with a deadly weapon. 1 We hold that the sentence was illegal.

The maximum term of imprisonment authorized upon conviction of robbery with a deadly weapon is twenty years. Maryland Code (1957, 1987 Repl.Vol.) Art. 27, § 488. However, as a tactic in the continuing battle against crime, the legislature of Maryland…