Sefton v. State

OPINION

By the Court, Badt, J.:

Appellant was convicted of the first-degree murder of Jacqueline Kelly in Clark County, Nevada, and sentence of death imposed. His appeal from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for new trial assigns the errors hereinafter discussed in the order of the seriousness and importance accorded them by the appellant in his opening and closing briefs and in his oral argument.(1) Appellant’s most seriously presented assignment of error revolves about the contention that, aliunde his extrajudicial written confession, there is no proof of the corpus delicti;…