State v. Preston
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of Nevada, Esmeralda County; Frank P. Pangan, Judge. M. R. Preston and Joseph Smith were convicted, respectively, of murder in the second degree and manslaughter, and they appeal. The State moves to dismiss the appeal. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Per curiam
Appellants were jointly tried in the First Judicial District Court of Nevada in and for Esmeralda County upon an indictment charging them with the crime of murder for the killing of John Silva, a restaurant keeper of Goldfield, on the 10th day of March, 1907. Verdicts of murder in the second degree against M. R. Preston and of voluntary manslaughter against Joseph Smith were returned by the jury, and they were sentenced, respectively, to twenty-five and ten years' imprisonment in the Nevada State Penitentiary by the district judge of said court. A motion for a new trial interposed by…
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