State v. Perkins

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

After a jury trial the Superior Court (Waldo County) convicted defendant Colby Perkins of one count of burglary, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 401 (1983), and one count of theft, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 353 (1983). The principal issue on defendant’s appeal involves the Superior Court’s pretrial finding that defendant was competent to stand trial. Reviewing that finding by a “clearly erroneous” standard, we affirm defendant’s convictions.

Early in the morning of December 9, 1983, defendant and two acquaintances drove to the Grant’s Dairy terminal in Belfast. While defendant and one colleague…