Hendricks v. State

DeBRULER, Justice.

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for postconviction relief. In November, 1977, three delinquency petitions were filed in Juvenile Court, Marion County, charging appellant, then seventeen years old, with three separate robberies committed while he was armed with a deadly weapon in violation of Ind.Code § 35-42-5-1. In one of the robberies the appellant was alleged to have stabbed the victim.

On December 13, 1977, after a hearing, the juvenile court waived jurisdiction over the appellant on all three charges and ordered him bound over to criminal court. On…