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

CLAUDE LARKIN ELLISON, Appellant, v. STATE OF NEVADA, Respondent.
    No. 6173
    January 14, 1971
    479 P.2d 461
    
      Martillaro and Bucchianeri, of Carson City, for Appellant.
    
      Harvey Dickerson, Attorney General, of Carson City, and Dennis E. Evans, District Attorney, Churchill County, for Respondent.
   OPINION

Per Curiam:

A jury found Ellison guilty of cattle theft. We are asked to void the conviction because the prosecutor expressed his belief that the defendant was guilty. The evidence of guilt was substantial. Its sufficiency is not questioned. The court instructed the jury that counsel’s statements were not evidence. The prosecutor’s several statements suggesting guilt and his belief therein were made in relation to evidence pointing to guilt. Cf. State v. Cyty, 50 Nev. 256, 256 P. 793 (1927). Although the prosecutor should not have expressed his belief, his statements, within the context of this case, were harmless. NRS 177.255.

Affirmed. 
      
      Other assigned errors are not considered since no supporting authority is offered and none concern constitutional rights.