State v. Foley
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. The facts are stated in the opinion. I. In order to render a pardon valid, it must express with accuracy the crime intended to be forgiven. (4 Black. Com. 400; 2 Hawk. P. C. 533; State v. Leah, 5 Ind. 359; State v. Mclntire, 1 Jones (N. C.) L. 1.) And the effect of a pardon is to protect from punishment the criminal for the offense pardoned, but for no other. {State v. Itichardson, 18 Ala.
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Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. The facts are stated in the opinion. I. In order to render a pardon valid, it must express with accuracy the crime intended to be forgiven. (4 Black. Com. 400; 2 Hawk. P. C. 533; State v. Leah, 5 Ind. 359; State v. Mclntire, 1 Jones (N. C.) L. 1.) And the effect of a pardon is to protect from punishment the criminal for the offense pardoned, but for no other. {State v. Itichardson, 18 Ala. Ill; PerJdns v. Stevens, 24 Pick. 278.) Here there were two convictions for two separate felonies, only one of which was…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Beatty, C. J.:
At the trial of this case in the district court, the state called, among other witnesses, one Charles F. Roper. The *66defendants objected to the competency of this witness on the ground that he was a convicted felon, and to support their objection, offered, together with his own admissions, duly authenticated records of the courts of California, from which it appeared that he had been convicted in that state of two distinct offenses — grand larceny in Butte county, in 1873, and burglary in the second degree in Alameda county, in 1877, and thereupon sentenced to…
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