This court affirmed, stating that the violent nature of the crime was a sufficient basis to deny the motion to transfer, but that there were also other factors appropriately relied upon by the trial court in denying the motion. In the first two robberies, the defendant or an accomplice allegedly employed guns in robbing a pizza deliveryman. In the third robbery, the defendant or his accomplice used a rock or a brick to threaten a deliveryman. In the present case, appellant is charged with aggravated assault and terroristic threatening. Under the reasoning of our cases cited above, the offenses with which Sanders is charged are of a serious and violent nature, even though it is not alleged that Sanders actually physically injured the victim.
Aggravated assault is a crime of violence.
See Ark. Code Ann. Terroristic threatening while holding a knife to the victim's throat is a crime of violence. The trial court determined that the alleged offenses were serious and of a violent nature, and it did not clearly err in making this determination. Moreover, there was another factor supporting the denial of the motion. The court considered the fact that Sanders was seventeen at the time of hearing, but would be eighteen in approximately four months.