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JOHNSTONE v. STATE

No. 8163.

548 P.2d 1362 (1976)

Robert Gordon JOHNSTONE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

April 26, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond E. Sutton, Las Vegas, for appellant.

Robert List, Atty. Gen., Carson City, George Holt, Dist. Atty. and Dan Seaton and Rimantas A. Rukstele, Deputy Dist. Attys., Las Vegas, for respondent.

OPINION

GUNDERSON, Chief Justice:

Appellant Robert Johnstone stands convicted of murdering Eugene and Mary Carone, tourists stabbed to death December 18, 1971, in room 5212 of the Westward Ho Motel, at Las Vegas, Nevada. Claude Theriault and Lloyd Paulette have heretofore been tried for the Carone Murders, sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, and this court has affirmed their convictions on appeal. Theriault v. State, 92 Nev...

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