Franklin v. Sheriff

OPINION

An indictment charged that Diana Franklin committed a robbery (NRS 200.380) with the use of a deadly weapon (NRS 193.165). A pretrial petition for a writ of habeas corpus was denied and in this appeal Franklin contends that the district judge should have granted habeas because the evidence before the grand jury is insufficient to support the charges. We agree.

The victim testified that she had been robbed in the parking lot of a savings and loan association office and that the person who committed the robbery made a hasty departure in an automobile occupied by an undetermined number of…