Carolina v. Taylor

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant assigns as error Judge Snepp’s ruling that defendant had the mental capacity to stand trial.

Pursuant to motion of defense counsel, a pretrial hearing to determine defendant’s competency to stand trial was conducted on 2 September 1975. At this hearing, defendant’s mother, Eunice Taylor, and his father, Willie James Taylor, testified as to defendant’s unusual and strange behavior for a period of about two years preceding the hearing. Their testimony at this time was consistent with their testimony offered at trial in defendant’s behalf as related in our statement of…