TURNER v. STATE

No. CR 80-128.

606 S.W.2d 762 (1980)

Kenneth TURNER, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

November 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Alvin Schay, State Appellate Public Defender by Deborah Sallings, State Appellate Public Defender and Ray Hartenstein, Chief Deputy Appellate Defender, Little Rock, for appellant.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen., by Joseph H. Purvis, Deputy Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

Kenneth Turner, age 15, was convicted of robbery after a bench trial and was sentenced to the maximum confinement of 20 years. Two of his points for reversal must be discussed.

First, we find no merit in his contention that the charge of robbery should have been reduced to theft of property. On the morning of December 23, 1979, Edna Baker, whose vision was so poor as to amount to legal blindness, and her husband, who also had impaired...

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