Keith Dwight Manning, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court of Criminal Appeals held that a prior, unvacated adjudication of incompetency shifts the burden to the State to prove competency beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the trial court erred by instructing the jury that the burden was a preponderance of the evidence. The case was remanded for a new competency hearing. Justice ONION dissented, arguing the record did not show an unvacated prior adjudication.