In re Breen
Nevada Supreme Court
Proceedings for the disbarment of Peter Breen, an attorney. Judgment of suspension, until further order of tbe court, and disbarment, subject to conditions, awarded. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. In this matter a change of venue in a criminal case had been ordered by the supreme court, and the same was to be tried de novo in an adjoining county.
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Proceedings for the disbarment of Peter Breen, an attorney. Judgment of suspension, until further order of tbe court, and disbarment, subject to conditions, awarded. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. In this matter a change of venue in a criminal case had been ordered by the supreme court, and the same was to be tried de novo in an adjoining county. The remittitur having been returned and filed, and the defendant removed to the county where the cause had been tried, the court proceeded to make and enter an order changing the place of trial in accordance with the judgment of the…
1Per curiam
In the case of The State of Nevada v. Patrick Dwyer, 29 Nev. 421, on appeal to this court from a conviction of murder in the first degree and sentence of death, the judgment and order denying a motion for a new trial were reversed on the 12th day of August, 1907. The reversal was upon the sole ground that the trial court erred in not granting defendant’s motion for a change of venue. ■
*171Tbe opinion was a lengthy one, written for the conrt by Norcross, J., the full bench concurring. During the course of the opinion the following statement was made: "The theory of the state, if'we understand it,…
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