Cummings v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction in a trial without jury in the Allen County Circuit Court for inflicting physical injury while engaged in the commission of a robbery, in violation of Acts 1941, ch. 148, § 6, the same being Burns’ Ind. Stat. Ann. § 10-4101. Appellant filed a motion for new trial which was overruled and is not at issue on this appeal, and on September 17, 1968, the trial court imposed the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment in the Indiana Women’s Prison.

On September 20, 1968, appellant filed a petition to transfer the case to the Allen County Juvenile Court on the…