Myers v. Sheriff

OPINION

Beverly Ann Parker Purpura filed a pretrial petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging count I of an indictment which charged her, inter alia, with an attempt to sell a controlled substance on December 3, 1977, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Habeas was denied and in this appeal Purpura contends the district judge committed reversible error.1 We agree.

The only evidence in the record that purports to connect Pur-pura with the charged crime is that during the evening of *707December 3, 1977, she was in the company of William Myers and another person in the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel when an…