Ferguson v. State

I. INTRODUCTION AND STATEMENT OF THE CASE

PRATHER, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

Clay Ferguson, a minor, seventeen years of age at the time of trial, was indicted for burglary and armed robbery for an incident on May 1, 1991, in which he and another individual broke into the home of James Betts at night with a weapon and robbed him of $1,100. On August 23, 1993, Ferguson pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary (Count II) and to a charge of robbery (Count I) and was sentenced to sixteen and fifteen years on the burglary and robbery charges, respectively. Ferguson filed a motion for…