Source: https://nevada.lexroll.com/a-minor-v-state-85-nev-323-1969/
Timestamp: 2019-04-18 23:15:19+00:00

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No. 5640Supreme Court of Nevada.
 It is the policy of this court that the names of juveniles shall not be published; for that reason the name of the appellant has been omitted.
Appeal from judgment of the Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County; Alvin N. Wartman, J.
L. Earl Hawley, of Las Vegas, for Appellant.
Richard H. Bryan, of Las Vegas, for Respondent.
Pursuant to an order of the trial court filed on April 11, 1968, a proceeding was held on April 15, 1968 to consider the appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. At that proceeding no testimony was taken, nor was there any evidence presented. There were only arguments by respective counsel for the parties. There has never been a petition filed in this matter in the Juvenile Court. Before a petition could be filed by the respondent, alleging the grounds for the original detention of the appellant, her counsel announced: “[W]e will go to the Supreme Court with it.” After the arguments of counsel the writ was denied.
(2) That the appellant was denied due process because the respondent had failed to afford her a hearing within a reasonable time.
In support of her contentions, the appellant relies heavily upon In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967), and Kent v. United States, 383 U.S. 541 (1966). We find this reliance extremely premature.
There is nothing before this court, either by way of testimony, material evidence, a minute entry or otherwise, by which we would be able to determine these issues. The record is devoid of any acceptable evidence that goes to prove that the appellant was ever taken into custody for violating any law or ordinance, or was ever held in detention by the juvenile authorities, nor has the appellant in any other acceptable manner supplied any material evidence.
Neither the argument by counsel for the appellant before the trial court, nor his arguments in the briefs filed on behalf of the appellant in this court can be considered as evidence or as part of the record.
It has long been a recognized rule of law that any statement or argument made by counsel before the trier of facts, concerning the fact of a case, cannot be regarded as evidence. Frazier v. Cupp, 394 U.S. 731 (1969). Town of Ashwaubenon v. Public Service Commission, 126 N.W.2d 567 (Wis. 1964).
In determining cases, an appellate court must confine its consideration to the facts reflected in the record and the necessary and reasonable inferences that may be drawn therefrom. The statements made by counsel in their briefs, alleging facts, or their arguments made in open court portraying what might have occurred, will not be considered by this court. State v. Griswold, 446 P.2d 467 (Ariz. 1968); Yee Marn v. Reynolds, 361 P.2d 383 (Hawaii 1961).
and an order was entered requiring a hearing on the application, does not justify the assumption that the trial court committed error when the writ was denied. As a matter of fact, the presumption is that no error was committed. Water Co. v. Belmont Dev. Co., 50 Nev. 24, 249 P. 565 (1926); State v. Boyle, 49 Nev. 386, 248 P. 48 (1926).
Because we are unable to determine, from the record, the grounds for the appellant’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, we cannot accept her contention that error was committed. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
COLLINS, C.J., ZENOFF, MOWBRAY, and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.

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