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concluding that evidence showing that the defendant struck the victim with a two-by-four piece of lumber provided sufficient probable cause to support a charge of battery with the use of a deadly weapon
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No. 11430
February 28, 1979
Appeal from Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County; Thomas J. O'Donnell, Judge.
Morgan D. Harris, Public Defender, and R. Michael Gardner, Deputy Public Defender, Clark County, for Appellant.
Richard H. Bryan, Attorney General, Carson City; Robert J. Miller, District Attorney, and Fernando Guzman, Deputy District Attorney, Clark County, for Respondent.
OPINION
This appeal is from an order denying a pretrial habeas corpus challenge to an information charging that Glenn Davis Archie committed a battery with a deadly weapon (NRS 200.481), and a robbery (NRS 200.380). There is testimony recorded in the transcript of the preliminary examination that, during an altercation, Archie struck the victim with a two-by-four piece of lumber. This testimony supports the district court's determination, that Archie probably committed a battery with the use of a deadly weapon. Cf. Lindsay v. State, 64 So. 501 (Fla. 1914). However, the record is barren of any evidence that would support an inference that Archie either committed the alleged robbery or participated in a scheme to do so. See Skinner v. Sheriff, 93 Nev. 340, 566 P.2d 80 (1977). Therefore, the district court should have granted habeas on the robbery charge. Accordingly, the portion of the district court's order which denied the habeas challenge to the robbery charge is reversed. The portion of the order which denied the habeas challenge to the battery charge is affirmed.