Hill v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

The appellants, four girls ranging in age from sixteen to twenty, were charged with the aggravated robbery of Louis Daniels at the New Hope Grocery in Pope County in February, 1981. A jury found all four guilty and fixed the sentence of each at six years. The applicable statute, Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-2102 (Supp. 1981), provides a minimum mandatory sentence of six years without suspension of execution of sentence. The jury added to its verdict form the phrase, “we the jury recommend leniency according to the Court’s judgment by consideration of the partial suspension.”…