Opinion ID: 1195279
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Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Sufficiency of the criminal information

Text: Moore contends that the felony-murder charge set forth in the criminal information was fatally defective for lack of factual specificity. A first-degree murder conviction based on felony-murder cannot be sustained unless the State gives notice in its charging document that it is seeking a conviction based upon such a theory and states specific facts supporting the conclusion that the murder was committed during the commission of a particular identified felony. See Alford v. State, 111 Nev. 1409, 1410-11, 906 P.2d 714, 715 (1995). Count I of the information read, in part, as follows: COUNT IMURDER WITH USE OF A DEADLY WEAPON ... [O]n or about April 24, 1994, defendant... did then and there, willfully, feloniously, without authority of law, with malice aforethought and premeditation and/or during the course of committing Robbery and/or Attempt Robbery, kill JIMMIE EARL WYANT with a deadly weapon, to-wit: a firearm, during the commission of said crime.... We conclude that the information was sufficient to place Moore on notice that the State was seeking a felony-murder conviction. The facts stated in the information clearly allege that the murder occurred during the course of a robbery on April 24, 1994.