Application of Hoff

OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, J.:

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding. The petitioner, an indigent, was convicted of grand larceny in the district court. He now asks to be released from prison, contending that, as he was without counsel at the preliminary hearing, his present confinement is illegal. Here, as in Victoria v. Young, 80 Nev. 279, 392 P.2d 509, the petitioner mainly relies upon Hamilton v. Alabama, 368 U. S. 52; Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335; and White v. Maryland, 373 U. S. 59. In Victoria v. Young, supra, we distinguished those cases and held that a preliminary…