Morris v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is Robbery by assault; the punishment, life.

Appellant’s first ground of error is that the court erred in not stopping the trial on his own initiative and granting the accused a hearing on the question of his sanity when, after the jury returned their finding of guilt, the appellant refused to elect whether the judge or the jury should assess his punishment. There evidently had been some question raised prior to the instant trial as to appellant’s competency because the record reflects that a prior conviction had been set aside by the trial court and a…