State v. Rigg
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, Humboldt County. The defendant was convicted on the 20th day of April, 1875, of the crime of an assault with intent to till one George Wallace, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison for the term of one year. I. The district court erred in not allowing the challenge of the defendant to the panel of the trial jury.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, Humboldt County. The defendant was convicted on the 20th day of April, 1875, of the crime of an assault with intent to till one George Wallace, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison for the term of one year. I. The district court erred in not allowing the challenge of the defendant to the panel of the trial jury. A challenge to the panel can be founded only on a material departure from the forms prescribed by the statute in respect to the drawing and return of the jury, etc. (1 Comp. L>, Sec. 1947.) “ Form,” in the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Beatty, J.:
The defendant appeals from a conviction upon the following indictment: (After the title): “Defendant above named is accused by the grand jury of the county of Humboldt of a felony, committed as follows: The said Peter Bigg, on the 13th day of December, a.d. 1874, or thereabouts, at the town of Winnemucca, in the county of Humboldt, State of Nevada, and before the finding of this indictment, without authority of law and with malice aforethought, .did feloni-ously assault one George Wallace with a deadly weapon, to wit, a knife, in the hand of said Peter Bigg, then and…
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