Title: Carroll v. State

State: arkansas

Issuer: Arkansas Supreme Court

Document:

Terry Lynn CARROLL v. STATE of Arkansas

CR 96-770                                          ___ S.W.2d ___

                    Supreme Court of Arkansas
                 Opinion delivered July 5, 1996
            Dissenting Opinion delivered July 5, 1996


     Petition for Writ of Prohibition; Pulaski Circuit Court,
Fourth Division; John Langston, Judge; Stay granted.
     William R. Simpson, Jr., Public Defender, by:  Bret Qualls,
for petitioner.
     Winston Bryant, Att'y Gen., by:  Clint Miller, Deputy Att'y
Gen., Sr. Appellate Advocate, for respondent.

     
     Glaze and Roaf, JJ., would deny.
     Dudley, J., not participating.

     Tom Glaze, Justice, dissenting.*ADVREP*SC1*






TERRY LYNN CARROLL,
                    PETITIONER,

V.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,
                    RESPONDENT.



CR96-770

Opinion Delivered:  7-5-96

PETITION FOR WRIT OF
PROHIBITION




DISSENTING OPINION




                  TOM GLAZE, Associate Justice

     This court has authority to stay proceedings pending an
appeal, Bowen v. State, 323 Ark. 233, 913 S.W.2d 304 (1996); Clark
v. State, 308 Ark. 453, 824 S.W.2d 345 (1992), and certainly it has
done so when a meritorious reason has been shown.  In the present
case, petitioner Terry Carroll requests this court issue a writ of
prohibition, to order the trial court to desist from proceeding
with his trial scheduled to begin on July 8, 1996.  Carroll's
request is assertedly made so that this court might consider his
interlocutory appeal from the trial judge's denial of his motion to
transfer to juvenile court.  From my review of the record,
Carroll's writ (or stay) request has no merit and should be denied.
     On July 5, 1995, Carroll was charged by information with three
counts of capital murder and one count of attempted capital murder. 
Carroll, along with three others, allegedly participated in the
execution-style murder of three children and attempted murder of
another on June 4, 1995.  At the time of the murder, Carroll was 16
years old.  
     To support his petition for issuance of a writ of prohibition,
Carroll cites Hamilton v. State, 320 Ark. 346,