Gerrick v. State

GIVAN, Chief Justice.

Appellant, a juvenile, was arrested and placed in detention in the Ripley County Jail. Thereafter the Ripley Circuit Court, sitting as a juvenile court, waived its jurisdiction in the matter. The two-count information was filed in Ripley Circuit Court charging appellant with one count of Murder and one count of Robbery. After a change of venue appellant was tried before a jury in Jefferson Circuit Court and found guilty on both counts. He was sentenced to a forty year term of imprisonment.

The facts are these. At about 8:30 A.M. on March 12, 1980, Buzz Lohrum, owner of a…