State v. Anderson
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, Lauder County. The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, Lauder County. The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree. Af-terwards a motion for new trial was made and overruled, and defendant sentenced to be banged on July 17th, 1868. The homicide appears to have occurred at the house of A. S. and R. H. Eggleston, in the City of Austin, on May 5th, 1868, under substantially the following circumstances: On the evening of that day, while Noble T. Slocum, the deceased, the two Eggle-stons, A. V. McIntyre, his wife and child, were sitting in the house, Rufus E. Anderson, the…
1Opinion of the Court
*273By the Court,
Beatty, C. J.
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, moved the Court below for a new trial, which was refused, and now appeals to this Court from the order refusing a new trial.
The first point made is, that the indictment is insufficient to support the judgment of the Court below. In the case of The State v. John Millain, (3 Nev. 409) we held that an indictment which complied with our statutory requirements was sufficient, and that it was not necessary that it should contain all the old common law averments. The body of this indictment is as follows:
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2Cases cited3 opinions
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