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HANCOCK v. STATE

No. 4739.

397 P.2d 181 (1964)

Gilbert HANCOCK, Appellant, v. STATE of Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 15, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Santa Cruz, of Las Vegas, for Appellant.

Harvey Dickerson, Atty., Gen., Carson City, Edward G. Marshall, Dist. Atty., William E. Freedman and Raymond D. Jeffers, Deputy Dist. Attys., Las Vegas, for respondent.

THOMPSON, Justice.

On Christmas Day 1962 Hancock and one Livingston Johnson engaged in a fight which ended rather abruptly when Hancock, using a straight razor, cut the left side of Johnson's neck from behind and above the left ear down to the midline just below the Adam's apple — an incision about 8 inches long, shallow at the upper and lower margins, but about one-half inch in depth at the mid-portion. Johnson died about noon on December 26, 1962. Subsequently...

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