State v. Davis
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe District Court of tbe Second Judicial District, Ormsby county. Tbe instructions complained of by appellant, and referred to in tbe opinion of the court, are as follows: Instruction given by tbe court of its own motion: “A reasonable doubt, in the law, is one founded upon a full and fair consideration of all tbe evidence in tbe cause and circumstances surrounding tbe transaction, shown and adduced by either tbe state or defendant, or both, and is not a doubt…
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Appeal from tbe District Court of tbe Second Judicial District, Ormsby county. Tbe instructions complained of by appellant, and referred to in tbe opinion of the court, are as follows: Instruction given by tbe court of its own motion: “A reasonable doubt, in the law, is one founded upon a full and fair consideration of all tbe evidence in tbe cause and circumstances surrounding tbe transaction, shown and adduced by either tbe state or defendant, or both, and is not a doubt resting upon mere conjecture or speculation. Tbe law presumes tbe defendant innocent of the crime alleged, and, to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Hawley, J.:
Defendant was indicted and tried for the crime of an assault with intent to kill. The jury found him guilty of “ an assault with a deadly weapon, with intent to commit a bodily injury upon the person of Albert Standinger.”
1. One Laforge, upon being examined by defendant’s counsel touching his qualifications as a juror, testified that he had read in the Carson Appeal what purported to be a detailed account of the alleged commission of the crime *411charged against defendant; that he had forgotten whether, from the reading of said account, or from any other information, he…
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