Johnson v. Bishop

OPINION AND ORDER

WILHOIT, Judge.

This case is before the Court on petition of Jimmy Ray Johnson and Willie Napier, Jr., to prohibit the judge of the Leslie Circuit Court from ordering each of them to trial on a charge of robbery in the first degree. The petitioners contend that the circuit court has no jurisdiction to proceed against them because they were both under the age of eighteen at the time the alleged offense was committed. The offense with which the petitioners are charged was alleged to have been committed on January 7, 1978. At that time both were seventeen years of age. On January…