State v. Turley

McHUGH, Justice:

In this appeal we are presented the narrow question of whether the trial court erred in concluding that it did not have jurisdiction under the youthful offender statute to suspend the sentence of a person, qualified by age, convicted of or having pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery and to commit that person to a youthful offender center for a period not exceeding two years. We hold that the trial court did so err and remand for the trial court to exercise its sound discretion in this matter.

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The defendant, Marc Turley, was indicted by the Kanawha County grand jury in January,…