Brown v. State

Pry Thornton, Justice.

Appellant, Damien Deshun Brown, brings this interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s order denying his motion to transfer the charges against him to juvenile court. Because the trial court’s decision to retain jurisdiction of this case was not clearly erroneous, we affirm.

Brown was charged with aggravated assault, a Class D felony, on July 29, 1996, five months before his eighteenth birthday. Three months later, he was charged with robbery, a Class B felony. By the time of the hearing on the motion to transfer both charges, Brown was eighteen years old.

The alleged…