Siah v. State

OPINION

LANE,, Presiding Judge:

Ralph Siah, Jr., Appellant, was tried by jury for the crime First Degree Manslaughter (21 O.S.1981, § 711(2)) in Muskogee County District Court, Case No. CRF-87-366. The jury found appellant guilty and set punishment at four (4) years imprisonment. The trial court sentenced accordingly. In this perfected appeal Appellant raises an issue of first impression to the Court: whether the trial court denied him due process by ruling him competent to stand trial when he claimed to have no memory of the incidents surrounding the alleged crime due to a lifetime of alcohol…