STATE v. BANKS

No. CR 80-83.

609 S.W.2d 10 (1980)

STATE of Arkansas, Appellant, v. Richard Delaney BANKS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Supplemental Opinion on Denial of Rehearing January 12, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen., by Catherine Anderson, and Mary Davies Scott, Asst. Attys. Gen., Little Rock, for appellant.

Central Arkansas Legal Services by Julius D. Kearney, Pine Bluff, Tom Ginger, James R. Cromwell, Little Rock, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

Richard Delaney Banks, aged 15, was arrested and charged by information with having committed aggravated robbery on January 21, 1980. Appointed counsel filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the same proceeding, bringing in the county sheriff as Richard's custodian, and asked that Richard be released because the juvenile court has exclusive jurisdiction over a 15-year-old defendant. After a brief hearing the trial court sustained...

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