New to Java

I want to find the array index of the smallest value in a unsorted array. i am not allowed to sort the array.

public int find_index () {
for (int i = 0; i< 9; i++) {
            if (array[i] >  array[i+1]) {
               the_index = i+1;
            }
            else {
                the_index = i;
            }
        }
} 

return the_index;
}

what is wrong with above code