Shuman v. State

*266OPINION

By the Court,

Mowbray, J.:

A jury found appellant, Raymond Wallace Shuman, guilty of capital murder. Shuman, who was serving a life sentence without possibility of parole, was charged with the fatal killing of a fellow prisoner. Under the provisions of a mandatory death sentence then in effect, Shuman was sentenced to death. NRS 200.030 (1973) (amended 1975, 1977).1 He has appealed, *267asserting numerous assignments of error, which we reject as meritless; therefore, we affirm.

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THE FACTS

On August 27, 1973, Ruben Bejarno, an inmate at the Nevada State Prison, was set afire and burned with a…