Garcia v. State

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

On February 20, 1997, an amended delinquency petition was filed in Pope County Chancery Court, Juvenile Division, charging appellant Joshua Garcia with carrying a knife as a weapon in violation of Ark. Code Ann. § 5-73-121 (Repl. 1993). He was fourteen at the time of the charged offense. After a hearing on the matter, the juvenile court entered an amended order and adjudged Garcia delinquent. The juvenile court concluded that Garcia carried the three-and-one-half-inch blade with the intent to use it as a weapon and placed him on six months’ probation.

Garcia was…