State v. Crockett

444 P.2d 896 (1968)

The STATE of Nevada, Appellant,

v.

Louis Lee CROCKETT, Respondent.

No. 5466.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

September 9, 1968.

Harvey Dickerson, Atty. Gen., Carson City, George E. Franklin, Jr., Dist. Atty., Las Vegas, for appellant.

William S. Barker, Oscar B. Goodman, Las Vegas, for respondent.

OPINION

ZENOFF, Justice.

Louis Crockett was convicted of murdering Curtis Wheeler and sentenced to death. After the trial one Floyd Hamlet revealed himself to Crockett's attorneys as the person seen leaving the murder site with a shotgun, not Crockett, as a witness had testified. On Hamlet's…