Pickworth v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Batjer, J.:

On October 24, 1976, a 75-year-old woman was found murdered in her Las Vegas trailer. Her hands were bound and the residence ransacked. She had been killed by numerous blows to the head and a knife wound to the neck.

Appellant was charged with the murder. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree; he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. On appeal he claims that the conviction must be reversed because (1) his confession should not have been admitted into evidence; (2) there was insufficient evidence to sustain the…