State v. Pulaski County Circuit-Chancery Court

Tom Glaze, Justice.

According to findings set out in a Little Rock Municipal Court order dated August 19, 1993, Eric Walter, seventeen years of age, was detained in jail based on “felony charges filed in that court.” Walter had been arrested on July 25, 1993, and had been “charged” as an adult in Little Rock Municipal Court with two counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of attempted capital murder. By its August 19 order, the municipal court denied Walter’s request to transfer his case to juvenile court, stating municipal court had no authority to do so under Ark. Code Ann. § 9-27-318…