State v. Arnold

Flowers, Justice:

This is an appeal by Lawrence Franklin Arnold, alias Warren T. Lincoln, from his conviction of grand larceny in the Circuit Court of Roane County. The indictment charged that the defendant feloniously stole a 1969 Chrysler automobile from Discount Motor Sales of Spencer, Inc. He was sentenced to an indeterminate term of one to fifteen years in the state penitentiary.

The principal questions presented for decision involve: (1) Whether the circuit court abused its discretion in denying the defendant’s motion for a pre-trial psychiatric examination; (2) whether the defendant’s…