People v. Raynes

Richard Michael Raynes, the appellant, was 16 years of age on January 21, 1975, when he went with another young man, Brian Wallace, to the. home of Clair Griffith, an elderly man, to rob him. Raynes and Wallace beat Griffith to the point of insensibility and injured him so severely that he became a "vegetable”, in the words of the trial judge. Raynes was arrested the day after the robbery. On March 10, 1975, the prosecutor filed a petition for waiver proceedings to circuit court which, after hearing, was granted by the probate judge. Raynes was tried in circuit court before a jury and…