Bowen v. State

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

Appellant Jamie Paul Bowen appeals from a judgment of conviction for first-degree murder and a sentence of life imprisonment. He raises four points on appeal: (1) there was insufficient evidence to support the judgment and sentence; (2) the trial court erred in not suppressing letters written by Bowen while in jail; (3) the trial court erred in not granting a mistrial, when the prosecutor solicited testimony from a witness that Bowen distributed marijuana; and (4) the trial court erred in failing to grant a mistrial based on the prosecutor’s failure to divulge the…