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91 Nev. 556

540 P.2d 95

McCall v. State

Nevada Supreme Court

Decided September 17, 1975

Nevada Supreme Court · decided 1975-09-17

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“fail[ing] to object or to request special instruction to the jury precludes appellate consideration.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including First Transit, Inc. Vs. Chernikoff

Relies on State v. Fouquette · Clark v. State · Cook v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1975-09-17

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2020

15 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1 OPINION

Per Curiam:

¶2 Convicted of burglary, robbery, second degree kidnapping, rape, and infamous crime against nature, appellant appeals his conviction and an order denying his motion for new trial.

¶3*557 At trial, garments worn by appellant and prosecutrix were admitted without objection into evidence for identification purposes. During deliberations, the jury asked whether they could consider a substance on certain garments as evidence of sexual intercourse, even though it had not been pointed out at trial. The court Informed counsel that it proposed to answer this question by instructing the jury: “The garments are in evidence.”

¶4 Appellant’s counsel not only failed to object to this instruction, but agreed to it. The failure to object or to request special instruction to the jury precludes appellate consideration. State v. Fouquette, 67 Nev. 505, 221 P.2d 404 (1950); Clark v. State, 89 Nev. 392, 513 P.2d 1224 (1973); Cook v. State, 77 Nev. 83, 359 P.2d 483 (1961).

¶5 Appellant attempts to cast the jury’s actions as “misconduct.” In light of appellant’s agreement to the instruction given by the court, we deem this contention without merit.

¶6 Affirmed.

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