Dearman v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Manoukian, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction wherein Appellant was found guilty, by jury verdict, of the crime of first degree murder. (NRS 200.010; 200.030.) The trial judge thereafter sentenced him to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.

Dearman was convicted of the murder of one Dennis Woife. The homicide occurred at approximately 8:30 p.m., on December 31, 1974, in a North Las Vegas, Nevada, bar and restaurant known as Cal’s Gin Mill. It was undisputed at the trial that Dearman shot Wolfe seven times with a .45 caliber automatic pistol at…