LaPena v. Sheriff, Clark County

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

Appellant Frank LaPena was held to answer for the crime of second-degree kidnapping, NRS 200.310, and battery with use of a deadly weapon, NRS 200.481. He appeals the denial of his writ of habeas corpus contending insufficiency of evidence of corroboration of the accomplice testimony to justify holding him for trial. NRS 175.291. 1

LaPena is accused of hiring Gerald Weakland to kidnap and injure Willis Obenauer, manager of the Hacienda Hotel in Clark County, where LaPena worked as bell captain. Weak-land and one Robert Webb testified as State witnesses that they,…