STATE v. BEWLEY

No. 87-799.

426 N.W.2d 286 (1988)

229 Neb. 293

STATE of Nebraska, Appellee, v. Herbert C. BEWLEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

July 22, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Kenney, Douglas County Public Defender, and Timothy P. Burns, Omaha, for appellant.

Robert M. Spire, Atty. Gen., and Bernard L. Packett, Lincoln, for appellee.

HASTINGS, C.J., and BOSLAUGH, WHITE, CAPORALE, SHANAHAN, GRANT, and FAHRNBRUCH, JJ.


FAHRNBRUCH, Justice.

After his unprovoked, racially motivated shotgun attack on a black man, Herbert C. Bewley, a white man, was found guilty by a jury of first degree assault and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Bewley was sentenced to the maximum possible indeterminate prison term of not less than 62/3 nor more than 20 years on the assault. The weapons sentence was a prison term of not less than 5 nor more than 10 years, to run consecutively...

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