# Hawkins v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · October 19, 1983 · 660 S.W.2d 65

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9668074

## Case

- **Full name:** Samuel Christopher HAWKINS, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** October 19, 1983
- **Citations:** 660 S.W.2d 65; 1983 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1205
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing by Odom
- **Judges:** Tom G. Davis
- **Cited by:** 303 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that it was error to refuse to empanel a jury when the defendant’s attorneys testified as to his incompetence, since the testimony presented some evidence of incompetence
- concluding that commenting on fact that defendant slept during his trial amounts to little more than directing the jury’s attention to that which jurors had already witnessed
- holding that contentions involving noncompliance with art. 36.27 cannot be reviewed on appeal in the absence of a timely objection

## Opinion text

OPINION ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
ODOM, Judge.
On original submission the Court remanded this cause for a competency hearing. By motion for rehearing the State challenges that holding. Appellant, however, has now expressly waived that issue and withdrawn it from the appeal. Accordingly, we grant the State’s motion for rehearing and affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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