Case Name: JAMES EMERY VARGO, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF NEVADA, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of Nevada
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Decision Date: 1977-11-16
Citations: 93 Nev. 554
Docket Number: No. 9974
Parties: JAMES EMERY VARGO, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF NEVADA, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Nevada Reports
Volume: 93
Pages: 554–554

Head Matter:
JAMES EMERY VARGO, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF NEVADA, Respondent.
No. 9974
November 16, 1977
570 P.2d 1142
Morgan D. Harris, Public Defender, and James B. Gibson, Deputy Public Defender, Clark County, for Appellant.
Robert List, Attorney General, Carson City; George E. Holt, District Attorney, and H. Leon Simon, Deputy District Attorney, Clark County, for Respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION
Per Curiam:
After James Emery Vargo was convicted, by jury verdict, of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the Nevada State Prison, he perfected this appeal.
Vargo's sole assignment of error claims the evidence was "insufficient to warrant a jury verdict of murder in the first degree." In support of this claim Vargo argues that he "was so intoxicated" that he was "unable to form the requisite premeditated design" to support the verdict. Earlier this year, in a case involving remarkably similar facts, that same argument was considered and rejected. See Dearman v. State, 93 Nev. 364, 566 P.2d 407 (1977). Accordingly, we affirm.