Slay v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant brings this interlocutory appeal under Ark. Code Ann. § 9-27-318(h) (Supp. 1991) from the circuit court’s denial of his motion to transfer two criminal charges to juvenile court.

Appellant, who is hearing impaired, was charged with having committed three criminal offenses. He was fifteen years old when he allegedly committed rape on October 10, 1989, and was sixteen years old when he allegedly committed second degree assault on November 13, 1989, and a second count of rape on December 1,1989. On January 16,1990, the state filed a petition in juvenile court to have…