Legal Opinion

Tucker v. State

Nevada Supreme Court

Decided August 31, 1976No. 8544PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

By the Court,

Mowbray, J.:

A jury found Howard Floyd Tucker guilty of the crime of burglary. He was sentenced to 10 years in the Nevada State Prison. Tucker has appealed from his judgment of conviction asserting several assignments of error, which we reject as meritless. We therefore affirm.

1. The Facts.

At approximately 2:40 on the morning of August 11, 1974, two officers of the Carson City Sheriff’s Department received a call to respond to a silent alarm at a business firm in Carson City. On entering the building, the officers discovered that the candy machine and the coke machine had…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Faretta v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  3. People v. DormanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1946
  4. United States v. Louis R. WolfishCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
  5. Commonwealth v. ChapmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962

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3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Gallego v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 2001
  2. McCullough v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1983
  3. State v. BebbWashington Supreme Court · 1987
  4. State v. KrepsHawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals · 1983
  5. White v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1979

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