STEWART v. WARDEN, NEVADA STATE PRISON

No. 9046.

555 P.2d 218 (1976)

James Rudy STEWART, Appellant, v. WARDEN, NEVADA STATE PRISON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

October 20, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace R. Goff, Nevada State Public Defender, and J. Thomas Susich, Chief Deputy State Public Defender, Carson City, for appellant.

Robert List, Atty. Gen., and Patrick B. Walsh, Deputy, Carson City, for respondent.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

This appeal is from an order which summarily dismissed a petition for habeas corpus [post-conviction] relief.

In dismissing the petition the district judge concluded, inter alia, our decision in Johnson v. Warden, 89 Nev. 476, 515 P.2d 63 (1973), precludes appellant from now litigating the claimed errors that could have been raised on direct appeal.

In Johnson we said...

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