Layton v. State

*599OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, C. J.:

Johnny Lee Layton was convicted of the murder of a taxi driver named Charles Anderson on April 28, 1970 in the vicinity of the Mustang brothel east of Reno.

The evidence was entirely circumstantial. On the day of the murder Layton traveled by bus to Reno from Sacramento and remained in the bus depot area during the afternoon. Previously, the day before the shooting, he had purchased a 20-gauge shotgun in Sacramento. In the early evening of the murder day he left the depot for the Mustang brothel in a taxi driven by Anderson. The taxi was discovered very close…