Ashing v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

Appellants Michael Ashing and Brenda Taulbee were charged with first degree murder of Iris Taulbee, Brenda’s mother, who was shot and killed on August 23, 1984. A motion was made to transfer the cause to juvenile court on the grounds that Michael Ashing was sixteen and Brenda Taulbee was fourteen the date of the murder. The motion was denied after a hearing and appellants were tried in circuit court. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, and Taulbee and Ashing were each sentenced to fifteen years.

Act 390 of 1981 [Ark. Stat. Ann. § 45-420…