WHEELER v. SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

No. 5033.

415 P.2d 63 (1966)

Carl Dean WHEELER, Petitioner, v. The SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada

June 3, 1966


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl F. Martillaro, Virgil A. Bucchianeri, Carson City, for Petitioner.

Harvey Dickerson, Atty. Gen. Carson City, William J. Raggio, Washoe County, Dist. Atty., and Herbert F. Ahlswede, Deputy Dist. Att., Reno, for Respondent.


OPINION

ZENOFF, District Judge.

Petitioner was charged with murder. He was brought to jury trial in the Second Judicial District in September 1965, and after extensive jury deliberation the foreman informed the trial judge that one of the jurors revealed that he had personal information about the case, that the juror thought he had observed the defendant and deceased together in a Reno bar. This led that juror to...

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