Pennington v. State

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

The appellants, Chuck Pennington and Stacey Sexton were charged with others, in the Hot Spring County Circuit Court, with criminal mischief in the first degree, a class C felony. The charges arose from the appellants’ alleged participation in the damage to some tombstones in a local cemetery. The police incident report indicated that approximately 30 tombstones had been knocked over, and several broken.

Two of the young men involved were nineteen and twenty years old; as appellants Pennington and Sexton were both seventeen years of age, they, together with another…