State v. Watts

OPINION

By the Court,

Sanders, J.:

In September, 1929, Rosa Watts was charged in an information filed in the court below with shooting and killing Rollin Watts, nicknamed “Doc Watts,” her husband, in Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nevada, on the 18th day of June, 1929. Although the proof shows the accused to have been an accessory to the homicide, she was informed against as a principal becáuse the distinction between principal and accessory is abrogated by statute. Section 7071, Revised Laws.

After an extended trial the jury returned this verdict:

“We, the jury in the above-entitled cause, do find…