BLAKE v. STATE

No. 5323.

423 S.W.2d 544 (1968)

244 Ark. 37

Jimmy BLAKE, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

February 5, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leroy Froman, Searcy, for appellant.

Joe Purcell, Atty. Gen., Don Langston, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


JONES, Justice.

This is an appeal from a Criminal Procedure Rule 1 hearing denying appellant release from the Arkansas penitentiary.

The appellant, Jimmy Blake, is sixteen years of age, had less than a fifth grade education, and is one of ten children whose father does common labor at a mill and whose mother works in a laundry.

Appellant's first brush with the law came in 1965, when he was sent to the Boy's Industrial School from Woodruff County Juvenile...

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