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Photo: Robert Dean Penny A man who pled guilty to shooting and killing his landlord is continuing his efforts to have his prison sentence reduced. Sixty-three
Robert Dean Penny
A man charged in the shooting death of his landlord entered a guilty plea to a second degree murder charge and was sentenced to 25 years in prison during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Sixty-three-year-old Robert Dean Penny was initially charged with first-degree murder in early December 2017. It was alleged Penny killed 71-year-old Chester Hornowski. Penny’s sentence on the murder charge will run concurrent with time he is spending in prison on earlier charges. He appeared in court Thursday in the white uniform of the state prison system.
Mistrial on murder charge
A mistrial was declared on the murder charge in September 2019 after a Baxter County Circuit Court jury was unable to reach a verdict as to Penny’s guilt or innocence after deliberating for about six hours.