State ex rel. Weston

PONDER, Judge.

Defendants appealed from the adjudication of delinquency and the imposition of a six month suspended sentence with supervised probation. The issues are legality of the arrest of one whom defendants assert they were defending and the sentences.

Two City Police officers, on patrol in a high crime area, observed a man leaning into the trunk of a car that was parked illegally and next to the back of another car with both trunks open.

When the officers asked the man if he was the owner of the car, he responded with profanity and brandished a socket wrench.

A scuffle broke out. There was…