Every person charged with the commission of a crime shall be presumed innocent until the contrary is proved by competent evidence beyond a reasonable doubt; and when an offense has been proved against the person, and there exists a reasonable doubt as to which of two or more degrees the person is guilty, the person shall be convicted only of the lowest.
NRS 175.201
Presumption of innocence: Conviction of lowest degree of offense
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Rice v. State (1997)
Most recently applied in Starr v. State (November 2018)
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1427)
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