Nevada Supreme Court, 1976

Feibel v. Sheriff

Feibel v. Sheriff
Nevada Supreme Court · Decided February 27, 1976
92 Nev. 126; 546 P.2d 1003; 1976 Nev. LEXIS 539

Feibel v. Sheriff

Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Per Curiam:

This appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant prosecution of Fred Leopold Feibel and James Arthur McCulIy for the crime of unlawfully employing, inducing or using a minor to transport or carry a controlled substance (marijuana), a felony under NRS 453.401(2).

The only probative evidence of record, suggesting such a crime occurred, is that after an automobile (camper) accident appellant McCully placed a quantity of marijuana in his eleven (11) year old son’s suitcase, which contained clothes belonging to both McCully and to his son; and, that McCulIy then placed the suitcase in an inconspicuous place beneath a bed in the camper.

Deeming this evidence insufficient to hold Feibel and McCulIy for trial on the charged offense, we reverse with instructions to grant the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, *127without prejudice to such rights as the state may have to initiate other proper charges. Cf. Hammond v. Sheriff, 91 Nev. 176, 532 P.2d 1030 (1975).

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