Yates v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Manoukian, J.:

A jury found appellant guilty of robbery (NRS 200.380) and *448the use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a crime (NRS 193.165), and the trial court sentenced him to consecutive terms of fifteen years in state prison, the sentences to run consecutively to any prior sentences.

Wanda Newman, age 12, reported to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) that on May 29, 1977, she and her three younger brothers, James, Shaun and Terrill, were at home in Las Vegas when, at approximately 11:00 p.m., two black men entered her family’s apartment,…