State v. Lovelace
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of the State of Nevada, Elko County; George $. Brown, Judge. Paul Lovelace was convicted of the crime of burglary, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. The indictment is not'good at common law.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of the State of Nevada, Elko County; George $. Brown, Judge. Paul Lovelace was convicted of the crime of burglary, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. The indictment is not'good at common law. The time of the commission of the crime charged in the indictment is in the following words: " The said Paul Lovelace on the 11th day of May, 1904, in the night time of said day, or thereabouts, in the County of Elko, State of Nevada, without authority of law and before the finding of this indictment, did…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Fitzgerald, C. J.:
Defendant appeals from a judgment rendered against him in the district court in and for Elko County for the crime of burglary; and he assigns two reasons why, as he claims, the judgment should be reversed:
First, the insufficiency of the indictment on which the judgment was based; and
Second, the absence of corroboration of the testimony of an accomplice who testified against the defendant.
Under the -first head the point made is on the proper interpretation of the following clause in the indictment: "The said Paul Lovelace on the 11th day of May, 1904, in the…
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