King v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, J.:

In the early morning of May 2,1962, Nathan King shot and killed his wife. The homicide occurred in their apartment at 2535 Carroll, North Las Vegas. A jury convicted him of first degree murder and directed his punishment to be life imprisonment with the possibility of parole. NRS 200.030(4). Judgment and sentence were duly entered. He appeals.

The main contention is that the jury’s conclusion of a willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, viz., first degree murder, can only find support in an inadmissible telephone statement overheard, and related in court,…