Patterson v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Charles L. Patterson was charged in a four-count information with aggravated robbery, burglary, and two counts of theft of property. The crimes were committed in Independence County and the information was filed there, but the trial judge granted a change of venue to Fulton County. This change was granted in part because the four crimes were allegedly committed by appellant while he was on furlough from a forty-year sentence in the Arkansas Department of Corrections and because appellant allegedly committed other crimes in Independence County. Appellant was convicted…