Bowman Trial Delayed

A jury trial that was scheduled to begin on Tuesday has been delayed. 48-year old Michael Gene Bowman Junior of Lebanon is facing several sex-related charges, including three counts in one case involving deviate sexual intercourse, with a person under the age of 14 and two counts each in another case involving forcible sodomy, and deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion. The alleged offenses occurred between 2012 and 2019. Bowman is being held in the Morgan County Jail in Versailles on a change of venue from Laclede County. A new trial date has not been set.