LaPENA v. SHERIFF, CLARK COUNTY

No. 8081.

541 P.2d 907 (1975)

Frank LaPENA, Appellant, v. SHERIFF, CLARK COUNTY, Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

October 30, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goodman & Snyder and Douglas G. Crosby, Las Vegas, for appellant.

Robert List, Atty. Gen., Carson City, George E. Holt, Dist. Atty., and Dan M. Seaton, Deputy Dist. Atty., Las Vegas, for respondent.


OPINION

ZENOFF, Justice:

Appellant Frank LaPena was held to answer for the crime of second-degree kidnapping, NRS 200.310, and battery with use of a deadly weapon, NRS 200.481. He appeals the denial of his writ of habeas corpus contending insufficiency of evidence of corroboration of the accomplice testimony to justify holding him for trial. NRS 175.291.1

LaPena is accused of hiring Gerald Weakland to kidnap and injure...

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