Arnold v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to thirty-five years’ incarceration in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The Corpus Christi Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion, reversed appellant’s conviction, holding that the finding made by the jury at appellant’s competency hearing, that she had “sufficient present ability to consult with her lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding,” was so against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence as to be manifestly unjust. Arnold v. State,…