Place of trial for homicide
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Walker v. State (1962)
Most recently applied in GUZMAN (WILBER) VS. DIST. CT. (STATE) (March 2020)
[1911 C&P § 128; RL § 6393; NCL § 10075]
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. If the injury be inflicted in one county, and the party die within another county, or without the State, the accused shall be tried in the county where the act was done, or the cause of death administered.
2. If the party killing shall be in one county, and the party killed in another county, at the time the cause of death shall be administered, the accused may be tried in either county.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.