Luckett v. Warden, Nevada State Prison

OPINION

Frank Luckett, convicted of grand larceny and currently incarcerated under a six-year prison term, is appealing from a *542district court order denying his petition for post-conviction relief.

The pertinent part of the information upon which he was convicted charged that “Luckett . . . did wilfully and unlawfully steal, take and carry away personal property, to wit: negotiable gambling chips of the value of $800.00,. ..”

His only cognizable contention below, and in this appeal, is that the information is fatally defective because it included the word “negotiable,” when in fact, gambling…