Opinion ID: 1173885
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Heading: Slitting the Ear

Text: Under our law, biting off a portion of the ear is equivalent to a slitting of the ear. NRS 200.290 provides that it is immaterial by what means or instrument or in what manner the injury was inflicted. In State v. Enkhouse, 40 Nev. 1, 5, 160 P. 23, 24 (1916), an ear-biting mayhem case, this court said:    [T]he information in question here charges that the appellant did `bite off with his teeth a portion of the right ear    and thereby disabled and disfigured said ear.' The information, therefore, charges a completed act, which completed act is equivalent to a slitting of the ear, for, by the provisions of section 152 [identical to NRS 200.290], it is immaterial by what means the injury or disfigurement is effected.