Henning v. Young

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, D. J.:

Petitioners appeared, with counsel of their own choice, at a preliminary hearing before the Justice *254Court for the Township of Sparks, to answer a criminal complaint accusing them of the crime of rape. The petitioners allege that the procedure at their preliminary hearing was improper and thus rendered the preliminary hearing void.

At the hearing testimony was presented by the state. After the state rested the Justice of the Peace advised the defendants of their prerogatives pursuant to NRS 171.410.1 Defendants declined to make a statement and sought to proceed…