Legal Opinion

State v. Burns

Nevada Supreme Court

Decided January 5, 1904No. 1643PublishedCited by 5 opinions

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Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Nevada,Washoe County; B. F. Ourler, Judge. Robert L. Burns was convicted of robbery. From an order denying a motion for new trial, defendant appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. In the first place, defendant was deprived of his only means of proving an alibi, and therefore a complete defense, by the actions of the sheriff in taking from him the only means he had of securing the attendance of his witnesses, or in taking their depositions, from another state, and we respectfully submit that, were…

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court,

Fitzgerald, J.:

The appellant was tried in the district court in and for the county of Washoe for the crime of robbery.' The jury found a verdict of guilty. He made a motion for a new trial. The court denied the motion, and he appeals to this court from the order denying his motion. - The grounds of appeal are (1) that the court misdirected the jury in matters of law; (2) that the verdict is contrary to law; and (3) that the verdict is contrary to the evidence.

The assignments of error are numerous. One is the fol lowing: The record shows that" this cause came on regularly to be…

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