Wagner v. State

OPINION

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

A jury found appellant guilty of murder and assessed punishment at eighty-five years’ confinement. Appellant alleges eleven grounds of error.

Several of those grounds concern his Motion for Continuance and Notice of Possible Insanity Defense. This motion involved three issues: continuance, a competency hearing, and notice of insanity defense. The court overruled the motion for a continuance, which appellant claimed was needed in order to obtain additional psychiatric testing of appellant “as to his mental condition.”

The record shows that the docket sheets contain a…