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PAYNE v. WARDEN, NEVADA STATE PRISON

No. 5834.

461 P.2d 406 (1969)

Joe Allen PAYNE, Appellant, v. WARDEN, NEVADA STATE PRISON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 1, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Santini, Public Defender and Earle W. White, Jr., Deputy Public Defender, Las Vegas, for appellant.

Harvey Dickerson, Atty. Gen., Carson City, George E. Franklin, Jr., Dist. Atty., and Larry C. Johns, Deputy Dist. Atty., Las Vegas, for respondent.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

A jury found the appellant guilty of first degree murder and caused him to be sentenced to prison for life without the possibility of parole. Judgment was entered on November 5, 1964, and this court affirmed that judgment in Payne v. State, 81 Nev. 503, 406 P.2d 922 (1965).

On December 4, 1968, the appellant filed in district court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that his constitutional...

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