Firo v. State

OPINION

YÁÑEZ, Justice.

After a competency hearing in which the jury found appellant competent to stand trial, appellant pled guilty to three counts of burglary. The trial court sentenced him to thirty-five years in prison as a habitual felony offender. By three points of error, appellant complains that he did not receive a fair competency hearing because the trial court erroneously admitted evidence of the charged offenses and of appellant’s prior offenses.

At the hearing, appellant presented the testimony of a psychiatrist who diagnosed appellant as schizophrenic and said that appellant seemed…