STATE v. DOLLAR

No. 22.

233 S.E.2d 521 (1977)

292 N.C. 344

STATE of North Carolina v. David Lee DOLLAR.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Patricia B. Hodulik, Associate Atty. Gen., and Elizabeth C. Bunting, Associate Atty., Raleigh, for the State.

E. James Moore, North Wilkesboro, for defendant.


LAKE, Justice.

Prior to trial the defendant moved for a psychiatric examination to determine his mental competency to plead to the indictment and to stand trial thereon. For this purpose, he was committed to Dorothea Dix Hospital. During the term of that commitment, the court, being advised that the defendant's brother planned to break into the hospital and release the defendant, ordered that he be transferred to the hospital at Central Prison and that the psychiatric...

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