New Trial Date for Bowman

A jury trial scheduled to begin on Tuesday in Morgan county has now been scheduled for April 19th of next year. 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 deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion. The alleged offenses occurred between 2012 and 2019. A pre-trial conference is set for March 7th in Laclede County. Bowman is being held in the Morgan County Jail in Versailles, and the trial was moved from Laclede County on a change of venue request.