Miles v. State

OPINION

A jury found appellant Miles guilty of embezzlement. NRS 205.300. On appeal Miles contends the trial judge committed reversible error when he refused the jury’s request to read back portions of testimony, and when he gave a jury instruction on flight absent testimony regarding appellant’s actual departure from the scene of the crime. We disagree and affirm.

1. Throughout the trial defense counsel contended that Jarvis Buie, a state’s witness, was the embezzler. After the jury had retired to consider its verdict, a note was sent to the trial judge which read: “Jay Buoy [sic] oral…