State v. McCoy

EXUM; Justice.

Defendant assigns as error the denial of his statutory and constitutional rights to a speedy trial, the determination that he was competent to stand trial, numerous evidentiary rulings, the denial of his motions for nonsuit and mistrial, and portions of the trial court’s instructions to the jury. We have carefully examined each assignment of error and conclude that defendant’s trial was free from prejudicial error.

The state’s evidence tends to show the following: Defendant resided in Wilson County with the deceased, Dorothy Smith, with whom he shared a bed, and with witnesses…