Legal Opinion

Bean v. State

Nevada Supreme Court

Decided February 3, 1970No. 5788Published

1Opinion of the Court

465 P.2d 133 (1970)

Thomas Lee BEAN, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Nevada, Respondent.

No. 5788.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

February 3, 1970.

Rehearing Denied March 11, 1970.

Richard O. Kwapil, Jr., Jerry Carr Whitehead, Reno, for appellant.

Harvey Dickerson, Atty. Gen., Carson City, Willliam J. Raggio, Dist. Atty., C. Frederick Pinkerton, Deputy Dist. Atty., Washoe County, Reno, for respondent.

OPINION

ZENOFF, Justice.

Thomas Bean, age 18, was convicted of the murder of Sonja McCaskie and sentenced to death. He had not known the victim. During a customarily sleepless night he was prowling a neighborhood…

2Cases cited79 opinions

  1. Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  4. Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  5. Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961

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