State v. Loveless

OPINION

By the Court,

Ducker, J.:

The defendant was informed against and tried in the district court of the Fourth judicial district of Elko County, for the murder of A. H. Berning. The jury returned a verdict as follows: “We, the jury impaneled and sworn to try the above entitled case, do hereby find the defendant, Floyd Loveless, guilty as charged in the Information.”

Upon this verdict the court pronounced judgment of death against the defendant. He has appealed from this judgment. After the appeal was argued and submitted in this court, the question of the effect of the verdict upon the…