State v. Thomas

MOORE, Justice.

Defendant’s first assignment of error is based on the contention that the trial judge erred in denying his motion for continuance for purposes of obtaining further psychiatric examination to determine his sanity.

Defendant was arrested on 4 October 1976. On 26 October 1976 counsel for defendant filed a motion requesting that defendant be committed to Dorothea Dix Hospital for evaluation to determine defendant’s capacity to proceed to trial as well as his sanity at the time of the commission of the crime. This motion was granted and defendant underwent examination for two weeks…