Degree of evidence to warrant indictment; objection
Applied in 37 court decisions — leading case Kirksey v. State (1996)
Most recently applied in 140 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 50 - DAYANI (FAHD) v. DIST. CT. (STATE) (August 2024)
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1409; A 1979, 331)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
1. The grand jury ought to find an indictment when all the evidence before them, taken together, establishes probable cause to believe that an offense has been committed and that the defendant has committed it.
2. The defendant may object to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the indictment only by application for a writ of habeas corpus.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.