BOWEN, Judge.
In September of 1972, Emory Ward Aldridge, the appellant, was indicted for first degree murder in the strangulation death of his wife. At his arraignment he entered a plea of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. Upon motion by defense counsel, Aldridge was ordered confined to Bryce State Mental Hospital for examination. On January 24, 1973, a lunacy commission determined Aldridge to be incompetent then and at the time of the murder.
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