State v. Rowsey

PARKER, Justice.

Defendant was tried capitally on an indictment charging him with the first-degree murder of Howard Rue Sikorski (“victim”). The jury returned a verdict finding defendant guilty as charged on the bases of both premeditation and deliberation and felony murder. The jury also found defendant guilty of robbery with a firearm. Following a capital sentencing proceeding, the jury recommended that defendant be sen*610tenced to death for the murder; and the trial court entered judgment accordingly. The trial court sentenced defendant to a consecutive term of forty years in prison for…