Colle v. State

*405OPINION

By the Court,

Mowbray, J.:

The Washoe County Grand Jury indicted John Ernest Colle for perjury. NRS 199.120.1 Colle filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court, asserting that the evidence presented to the grand jury was insufficient to support the perjury indictment. NRS 172.155, subsection 2.2 The district judge denied the petition; hence this appeal.

Colle had been earlier tried and convicted in the district court for a violation of NRS 197.090 (interfering with a police officer in the performance of his duties), which offense is a gross misdemeanor. During that…