Tarver v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Robbery: sentence, ten years imprisonment.

The only point of error in the record before us is the lack of a minute entry to show that the trial judge referred the defendant’s Youthful Offender Act petition to the probation officer. Act No. 335 of February 10, 1972, § 1, provides that the court shall' — in cases enumerated — cause the charged youth to be investigated. Section 5 makes it the duty of the probation officer to investigate upon request of the judge.

This precise point was decided in Edwards v. State (1974), 55 Ala.App. 544 317 So.2d 511.

To elaborate: —the sole…