State v. Harris
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe District Court of tlie Fourth Judicial District, Humboldt County. Tlie defendant ivas convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to eighteen years in tbe state prison.
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Appeal from tbe District Court of tlie Fourth Judicial District, Humboldt County. Tlie defendant ivas convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to eighteen years in tbe state prison. Upon tlie motion for a neiv trial tlie prosecution presented affidavits from tbe parties wlio bad an opportunity to converse with tlie juror Todd, without tbe bearing of tbe officers Laving tlie jury in charge, showing that there was no conversation whatever about tbe case, or about the defemlant. Affidavits were also presented from the officers in charge of the jury, tending to show that there had…
1Opinion of the Court
*419By tlie Court,
Beatty, J.:
Most of the assignments of error of this case are based upon exceptions to the sufficiency of the indictment, and in order to pass them in review it will be most convenient to copy the indictment and the demurrer thereto. The indictment (omitting the heading) is as follows:
Defendant, Charles Harris, above named, is accused by the grand jury of the county of Humboldt, state of Nevada, of the crime of murder, committed as follows:
“The said Charles Harris, on the fourth day of July, A. D. 1877, or thereabouts, at the county of Humboldt, state of Nevada, without authority…
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