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PICKWORTH v. STATE

No. 10404.

598 P.2d 626 (1979)

Brian Scott PICKWORTH, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

August 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan D. Harris, Public Defender, and Kirk B. Lenhard, Deputy Public Defender, Clark County, Las Vegas, for appellant.

Richard H. Bryan, Atty. Gen., Carson City, Robert J. Miller, Dist. Atty., Ira H. Hecht, and James V. Lavelle, III, Deputy Dist. Attys., Clark County, Las Vegas, for respondent.

OPINION

BATJER, Justice:

On October 24, 1976, a 75-year-old woman was found murdered in her Las Vegas trailer. Her hands were bound and the residence ransacked. She had been killed by numerous blows to the head and a knife wound to the neck.

Appellant was charged with the murder. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree; he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole...

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