Legal Opinion
Payne v. Warden, Nevada State Prison
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided December 1, 1969No. 5834PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
A jury found the appellant guilty of first degree murder and caused him to be sentenced to prison for life without the possibility of parole. Judgment was entered on November 5, 1964, *649and this court affirmed that judgment in Payne v. State, 81 Nev. 503, 406 P.2d 922 (1965).
On December 4, 1968, the appellant filed, in district court, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that his constitutional rights had been violated because he was without the assistance of counsel during his preliminary examination and because certain prospective jurors, who entertained conscientious…
3Cases cited10 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Payne v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1965
- Victoria v. YoungNevada Supreme Court · 1964
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4Cited by1 opinion
- McGuire v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1970