Manning v. Warden, Nevada State Prison

*83OPINION

By the Court,

Springer, J.:

This is an appeal from an order denying post-conviction relief to appellant Benny R. Manning. Manning was convicted of forcible rape and committing the infamous crime against nature upon a person under the age of eighteen. We shall consider three issues raised by Manning in this appeal.

The Jury Instruction on Criminal Intent

Appellant first challenges the giving, over objection, of the following instruction: “Criminal intent can only be proven as a deduction from declarations or acts; when the acts are established, the natural and logical deduction is that the…