Lawson v. State

• Decision Date: 26 August 1975
• Docket Number: No. 8066,8066
• Citation: 539 P.2d 116,91 Nev. 519
• Parties: Harold Gene LAWSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada, Respondent.
• Court: Nevada Supreme Court

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539 P.2d 116

91 Nev. 519

Harold Gene LAWSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada, Respondent.

No. 8066.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

Aug. 26, 1975.

Morgan D. Harris, Public Defender and Robert L. Stott, Chief Deputy Public Defender, Las Vegas, for appellant.

Robert List, Atty. Gen., Carson City, George Holt, Dist. Atty., and Dan M. Seaton, Chief Deputy Dist. Atty., Las Vegas, for respondent.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Appellant's sole contention in this appeal suggests we should reverse a judgment of conviction and sentence because the trial judge refused to give a requested jury instruction which did not accurately state the applicable law.

He has cited no relevant authority in support of the contention; and, in fact the law is otherwise. See Harris v. State, 83 Nev. 404, 407, 432 P.2d 929, 931 (1967), where we said: '. . . (R)equested instructions must properly state the law. The appellant can claim no right to have requested instructions given when they do not correctly state the law. Without such right a refusal is not error.' See also, State v. Sheeley, 63 Nev. 88, 162 P.2d 96 (1945).

Affirmed.