State Ex Rel. Gowdy v. Tahash

Appeal from an order of the district court discharging a writ of habeas corpus issued subsequent to relator’s conviction for the crime of first-degree murder. The issue in the habeas corpus proceeding was whether relator was competent to have stood trial for that crime.* 1 The issue on appeal is whether there is evidentiary support for the district court’s findings that relator was competent to stand trial and that he was adequately represented by counsel at trial. We hold that there was such evidentiary support and that relator failed to sustain his burden of proof.

The evidence presented in…