Hicks v. Sheriff, Clark County

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming this court’s finding in Azbill that “if it cannot be said there was sufficient evidence to make it appear the death resulted from another’s criminal agency, the state has failed in its burden and the person charged may not be held to stand trial on that charge”
• accused’s confession that death occurred by heating not corroborated by evidence as to the condition of victim’s body

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Domingues v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-05-30· cited 78×
• Sheriff, Washoe County v. Middleton
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-07-25· cited 21×
• State v. Laird
  Montana Supreme Court· 2019-08-20· cited 19×
• Frutiger v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1995-11-30· cited 13×
• State v. Vallejos
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1979-07-17· cited 12×
• Meegan v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1999-02-16· cited 8×
• Hooker v. Sheriff, Clark County
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1973-03-08· cited 7×
• Sheriff, Clark County v. Larsgaard
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1980-09-25· cited 5×
• Tertrou v. Sheriff, Clark County
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 3×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Azbill v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1968-05-15· cited 32×
• Sefton v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1956-04-04· cited 20×