Garnto v. State

Hill, Presiding Justice.

This appeal is from the denial of defendant’s extraordinary motion for a new trial based on allegedly newly discovered evidence.

The defendant was charged with two murders. At some unspecified time he told his retained attorney he could not remember committing the crimes. At the request of his attorney and the sheriff, the defendant was examined at Central State Hospital by a physician-psychiatrist over a period of 73 days, from September 2, 1976, to November 15, 1976. According to the court’s order, the primary purpose of the examination was to determine the…