Dinkens v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

Early in the evening of August 10, 1973, a young teenage girl was walking home from a youth recreation center in Las Vegas where she had spent the previous two or three hours. At that time, she was considering whether to visit a classmate friend who worked at a concession stand at a public park several miles distant. Observing a small boy riding as a passenger in an approaching pickup truck, she thought the situation afforded her the opportunity to obtain safe transportation to the park and decided to make the visit. Delmar Dinkens, driver of the vehicle,…