Gallery Furniture Fire Suspect Ruled Mentally Incompetent

March 25, 2012  by in UnCategorized   

By Aggregated Content in Furniture Retailing on March 26, 2012 from http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2012/03/26/gallery-furniture-fire-suspect-ruled.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search

A Houston man awaiting trial to face charges of setting fire to a Gallery Furniture store was ruled incompetent and will be shipped to a state mental hospital.

The Houston Chronicle reports that Robert Carroll Gillham, 69, will remain in hospital until he is competent to stand trial. Gillham's attorney said his client has a non-malignant brain tumor that is seriously affecting his motor skills, as well as his speech and hearing.

"He's got a growth between his brain and his skull that's pushing down into his brain that's causing significant cognitive defects," Gillham's attorney told the court. 

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