Roy v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Gunderson, J.:

The appellant, a 22-year-old mentally retarded bus boy, able neither to read nor write, purchased a “lid” of marijuana for an undercover police officer who pretended interest in him and friendship for him. Convicted of the nonprobationable offense of selling marijuana in violation of NRS 453.030 and NRS 453.210(2), sentenced to prison for four years, appellant assigns as error the trial court’s refusal to give the following instruction:

“If you believe that Police Officer R. Baggett asked the defendant to get some marijuana for him and that the defendant…