Wilson v. State

ON REHEARING

CATES, Presiding Judge.

The former opinion in this case is hereby withdrawn and the following becomes the opinion of this Court:

Robbery: sentence, thirty years imprisonment.

Appellant, who was nineteen years of age at the time of trial, first made known his desire to be tried as a youthful offender in his motion for new trial, which was denied by the trial court.

It was the duty of the trial court on being informed that Appellant was under the age of twenty-one at the time of the offense, and thus eligible for youthful offender treatment, to refer him to a probation officer for…