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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ODELL JACK TODD, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF NEVADA, Respondent.
    Nos. 10760, 11488
    December 20, 1979
    603 P.2d 1092
    
      
      Houston & Moran, Las Vegas, for Appellant.
    
      Richard Bryan, Attorney General, Carson City; Robert Miller, District Attorney, and James N. Tufteland, Deputy District Attorney, Clark County, for Respondent.
   OPINION

Per Curiam:

In these consolidated proceedings, appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to a term of life with the possibility of parole. Appellant’s motion for new trial based on newly discovered evidence was denied. He appealed from the conviction and from the order denying his motion for new trial, alleging several grounds for reversal. We need only consider appellant’s contention that an oral instruction or admonition given by the court during the jury’s deliberations was coercive.

In the instant case, the complained of instruction was nearly identical to the instruction that we condemned as reversible error in Ransey v. State, 95 Nev. 364, 366-67, 594 P.2d 1157, 1158 (1979). See also Redeford v. State, 93 Nev. 649, 572 P.2d 219 (1977).

Accordingly, we reverse.