Rezin v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Manoukian, J.:

A jury found appellant, a prisoner at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center, guilty of felony possession of several hand rolled cigarettes containing marijuana (NRS 453.336), and pursuant to the habitual criminal statute, 1 the district judge sentenced him to a life term as an habitual offender, the sentence to run consecutively to the terms appellant is presently serving. In this appeal, Rezin contends his penalty as enhanced is improper and that the trial court erred in treating his 1975 conviction of rape and robbery under a two count indictment as two…