State v. Cook

At the completion of a hearing held pursuant to G. L. 1956, §26-4-5, Charles Edward Cook was pronounced legally incompetent to stand trial on an indictment returned against him in 1959. The presiding justice of the superior court entered a decision which denied the defendant’s motion to assign a date on which he could be tried on the charges growing out of a homicide. From, this denial, the defendant has duly prosecuted a bill of exceptions in accordance with §9-24-17, as amended, by which •he seeks to have the decision of the lower court reversed.

On October 7, 1959, in the early dawn, John…