State v. Hall

The defendant, Charlie Ray Hall, appeals from a conviction of armed robbery, *137La.R.S. 14:64, for which he was sentenced to thirty-three (33) years in the state penitentiary. He relies on three bills of exceptions to obtain a reversal of the conviction.

The first bill of exceptions was taken to the trial court’s ruling, after a hearing on a sanity commission report, concerning the defendant’s mental incapacity to proceed. We find no error in the trial court’s finding that the defendant was presently sane, for the purpose of trial, i. e. that he enjoyed the mental capacity to understand the…