Bacon v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Mowbray, J.:

On September 28, 1963, the body of a woman who had been beaten to death was found near Battle Mountain, Nevada. Evidence at the scene and testimony by several persons led to the arrest of Armand Bacon, the petitioner-appellant herein. Bacon was charged by information with first-degree murder; the information was subsequently amended, however, to a charge of open murder. Bacon confessed to the killing and entered a plea of guilty to the amended information. After a hearing before a three-judge panel, he was sentenced to life without possibility of parole. An…