State v. Patty

OPINION

WALKER, Judge.

The state appeals from the order of the trial judge overruling its motion for further psychiatric examination of the appellee, Robert Patty, and from the trial judge’s subsequent determination that Patty is incompetent to stand trial. The question presented by the sole assignment of error is whether or not the trial judge abused his discretion by refusing to order further examination by a private psychiatrist of the state’s choice after the staff of Central State Hospital had found the appellee incompetent to stand trial and in need of judicial hospitalization. We hold…