Williams v. State

This is an appeal by seventeen-year-old Vincent Lamar Williams from an order of the Juvenile Court of Mobile County ordering his transfer to circuit court for criminal prosecution as an adult. Williams argues that the State's transfer motion should not have been granted because there was reasonable ground to believe that he was committable to an institution for the mentally retarded where he would benefit from treatment.

In his written order of transfer, the trial judge made specific findings on each of the six factors required to be considered by Alabama Code 1975, § 12-15-34 (d):

"1. Probable…