Cardwell v. Commonwealth

On May 2, 1966, Martin Pete Cardwell, herein called defendant, was indicted by a grand jury in the Corporation Court of the City of Bristol on a charge of statutory burglary, and upon suggestion of his court-appointed attorney that defendant’s sanity was in question the trial court committed him to Southwestern State Hospital to ascertain his mental condition. The superintendent of the hospital notified the court below, on January 9, 1967, that the defendant was not insane and was competent to stand trial and testify in his own defense, and he was promptly returned to the city jail in…