Woodall v. Sheriff

OPINION

At the conclusion of a preliminary examination, Frederick Laffeyette Woodall was ordered to stand trial for robbery (NRS 200.380) and having used a deadly weapon in the commission of that offense (NRS 193.165). A pretrial petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which challenged the quantum of the evidence to support the charges, was denied and Woodall has appealed.

Testimony recorded in the transcript of the preliminary examination identifies a person by the name of John Meador as having allegedly robbed a Stop ’N Go Market located on Atlantic Avenue, in Las Vegas. Meador was said to have…