Fuller v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice CORNELIUS.

Jackie Ray Fuller was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child. The jury found Fuller guilty, and the trial court assessed punishment and sentenced Fuller to thirty years’ imprisonment.

Fuller was originally indicted in 1992. A jury found him incompetent to stand trial. On December. 16, 1992, the trial court ordered Fuller confined in the Vernon State Hospital. On February 23, 1993, Dr. Raleigh D. Wood, on behalf of the hospital superintendent, certified in a letter and final report to the trial court that Fuller was then mentally competent to…