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DORSEY v. STATE

No. 12073.

620 P.2d 1261 (1980)

Michael Dewayne DORSEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 30, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan D. Harris, Clark County Public Defender, Las Vegas, for appellant.

Robert J. Miller, Clark County Dist. Atty., Las Vegas, and Richard H. Bryan, Atty. Gen., Carson City, for respondent.

OPINION

MOWBRAY, Chief Justice:

A jury found Michael Dewayne Dorsey guilty of arson. NRS 205.010. He was sentenced to fifteen years in the Nevada State Penitentiary.

Appellant specifies a number of errors: (1) hearsay evidence was improperly introduced; (2) evidence of prior bad acts was improperly introduced; (3) possibly exculpatory evidence of other arsons in the area was excluded; (4) the verdict is not supported by substantial evidence. We disagree...

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