Tye v. State

HINES, Presiding Justice.

In 2008, Cortez Tye was convicted of and sentenced for felony murder and related crimes stemming from a carjacking. 1 Tye now appeals his convictions and sentences and the superior court’s 2014 denial of his motion for new trial, as amended, in which the remaining stated issue was Tye’s assertion that the judge who conducted his trial erred in declining to hold a hearing on the issue of Tye’s competency to stand trial pursuant to OCGA § 17-7-130 2 even though Tye filed a special pre-trial plea of incompetency. Prior to the denial of the request for a new trial, the…