State v. Raymond
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie District Court of tbe Second Judicial District, 'W’asboe County. Tbe defendant was indicted for tbe murder of Frederick Twiggs, tried and found guilty of murder in tbe second degree, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment at bard labor in tbe state prison.
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Appeal from tlie District Court of tbe Second Judicial District, 'W’asboe County. Tbe defendant was indicted for tbe murder of Frederick Twiggs, tried and found guilty of murder in tbe second degree, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment at bard labor in tbe state prison. The indictment, after the proper caption, reads as follows: “The jurors of the grand jury of the county of Washoe, in and for the state of Nevada, impaneled, sworn and charged to inquire of offenses committed within the county of Washoe, * * on their oaths aforesaid do present and find: That one Thomas Raymond, late of…
1Opinion of the Court
*104By the Court,
Hawley, C. J.:
1. Tlie indictment in this case is for murder and is drawn in the approved form of the common law. The motion to set it aside and the demurrer thereto were properly overruled. The objections made are frivolous.
2. We think the testimony of the witness Allen was properly admitted in rebuttal of the testimony of the defendant.
3. The several objections to the court’s charge are not well taken. It is well settled that the entire charge of the court must be considered, and if it clearly appears therefrom that no error prejudicial to defendant has been committed, the…
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