Johnstone v. State

*242OPINION

By the Court,

Gunderson, C. J.:

Appellant Robert Johnstone stands convicted of murdering Eugene and Mary Carone, tourists stabbed to death December 18, 1971, in room 5212 of the Westward Ho Motel, at Las Vegas, Nevada. Claude Theriault and Lloyd Paulette have heretofore been tried for the Carone murders, sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, and this court has affirmed their convictions on appeal. Theriault v. State, 92 Nev. 185, 547 P.2d 668 (1976); Paulette v. State, 92 Nev. 71, 545 P.2d 205 (1976). Here appellant Johnstone, whose connection with the crimes is…