State v. Huff
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. Defendant was- indicted for the murder of William Patrick O’Beilly, convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison at hard labor for the term of twenty years. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from tlie District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. Defendant was- indicted for the murder of William Patrick O’Beilly, convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison at hard labor for the term of twenty years. The facts are stated in the opinion. I. The indictment is fatally defective in failing to charge that the death occurred within a year and a day after the wound was given, and in failing to state in luhal year the injury Avas given or the death occurred. (People v. Aro, 6 Cal. 209; People v. LUelly, Id. 212;…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Beatty, J.:
The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree, upon an indictment which (omitting the formal beginning and ending) reads as follows: “Charles Huff, the above-named defendant, is accused by the grand jury of the county of Storey, by this indictment, of the crime of murder, committed as follows: That Charles Huff, the defendant above named, in the county of Storey, state of Nevada, on or about the thirtieth day of June, and prior to the finding of this indictment, without authority of law, unlawfully and with malice aforethought, stabbed with a knife in the…
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