Oliver v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

This is an appeal from the denial of a motion to transfer a capital murder case to juvenile court. We find no merit to the appeal.

On March 27,1992, appellant Timothy Oliver, aged fifteen, was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder, along with three others, all codefendants. The charges arose from the brutal slaying of the parents of one of the codefendants in which all four youths participated. The couple was found dead in the bedroom of their DeQueen home on March 24 after reports that neither had been seen for several days. The police went to the…