Coates v. State

SHIELDS, Judge.

Richard E. Coates appeals his conviction upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of burglary, a class C felony. Coates presents the following issues for review:

1) whether the trial court erred by not allowing Coates to pursue an insanity defense;

2) whether the trial court erred by refusing to issue subpoenas to expert witnesses;

3) whether the trial court abused its discretion in overruling Coates’s objection to appearing at his jury trial restrained by handcuffs and chains;

4) whether Coates was denied his constitutional rights to a speedy trial; and,

5) whether there was…