STATE v. REID

No. 788SC286.

248 S.E.2d 390 (1978)

38 N.C. App. 547

STATE of North Carolina v. Billy Ray REID.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

November 7, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Associate Atty. Gen. Archie W. Anders, Raleigh, for the State.

Hulse & Hulse by H. Bruce Hulse, Jr., Goldsboro, for defendant-appellant.


HEDRICK, Judge.

By his first assignment of error the defendant maintains that the trial court erred in its pre-trial finding that the defendant was mentally capable to proceed with trial.

It is mandated by statute that "[n]o person may be tried, convicted, sentenced, or punished for a crime when by reason of mental illness or defect he is unable to understand the nature and object of the proceedings against him, to comprehend his own situation in reference...

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