Legal Opinion
Paul v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided December 22, 1976No. 52660PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ODOM, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for murder under our former Penal Code. Punishment was assessed at ninety-nine years.
In the first ground of error appellant contends that the trial court erred in failing to halt the trial sua sponte and conduct a hearing upon the question of appellant’s competence to stand trial “when it was brought to the attention of the Trial Court that Appellant had been committed to the Wichita Falls Mental Institution on two separate occasions prior to the date of the alleged offense for which he was being tried.”
The record reflects that prior to…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Dusky v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Pate v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Edward Morgan MacKenna v. O. B. Ellis, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- Bishop v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Wilbert Herring v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Hawkins v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1983
- Sisco v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1980
- Thompson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981
- Manning v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1987
- Howell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
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