Wade v. State

OPINION

Appellant was convicted of lewdness with a child under the age of fourteen. NRS 201.230. During the trial the court gave the following instruction:

Upon the question of intent, the law presumes a person to intend the reasonable and natural consequences of any act intentionally done; and this presumption of law will always prevail, unless, from a consideration of all the evidence bearing upon the point, the jury entertain a reasonable doubt whether such intention did exist.

Appellant contends that giving the instruction was reversible error. We agree.

In our view, the challenged…