State v. Williams
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe District Court, Wasboe County; B. F. Ourler, Judge, Frank Williams was convicted of murder in tbe first degree, and be appeals. Tbe facts sufficiently appear in tbe opinion. I. Tbe evidence is insufficient to justify tbe verdict in that it appears from said evidence that tbe killing was done without premeditation, premeditation being a requisite for murder in the first degree.
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Appeal from tbe District Court, Wasboe County; B. F. Ourler, Judge, Frank Williams was convicted of murder in tbe first degree, and be appeals. Tbe facts sufficiently appear in tbe opinion. I. Tbe evidence is insufficient to justify tbe verdict in that it appears from said evidence that tbe killing was done without premeditation, premeditation being a requisite for murder in the first degree. The evidence of Albert Wald-man, the state’s only eye-witness to the killing, was to the effect that the shooting occurred at least two minutes (it might have been longer) after the perpetration of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Talbot, J.:
Jointly with three others, Fred Roberts, J. P. Sevener, and T. F. Gorman, this defendant was convicted of murder in the *407first degree in Humboldt County, and on a former appeal with them was granted a new trial by this court. (27 Nev. 449.) Later, and after the case against all of them had .been transferred to Washoe County, Williams was given a separate trial, which again resulted in his conviction and sentence of death. He appeals from the judgment and order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion which we have rendered against the other three. (See…
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