St. Pierre v. Sheriff

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

An indictment returned by the Washoe County Grand Jury charged appellant with first degree murder (NRS 200.030 (2)). This appeal is from a district court order denying his habeas corpus petition for bail and the sole contention is that since first degree murder is no longer denominated as a capital *284offense, we are compelled to admit him to bail because of the provisions of Nev. Const., Art. 1, § 7.1

Historically, first degree murder was one of the capital offenses enumerated in the statutes and the offense was almost universally non-bailable, when the proof was…