Court Opinion

ID: 8044004
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 03:47:13.860207+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:37:25.380940
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OPINION

Per Curiam:

This appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant prosecution of Fred Leopold Feibel and James Arthur McCulIy for the crime of unlawfully employing, inducing or using a minor to transport or carry a controlled substance (marijuana), a felony under NRS 453.401(2).
The only probative evidence of record, suggesting such a crime occurred, is that after an automobile (camper) accident appellant McCully placed a quantity of marijuana in his eleven (11) year old son’s suitcase, which contained clothes belonging to both McCully and to his son; and, that McCulIy then placed the suitcase in an inconspicuous place beneath a bed in the camper.
Deeming this evidence insufficient to hold Feibel and McCulIy for trial on the charged offense, we reverse with instructions to grant the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, *127without prejudice to such rights as the state may have to initiate other proper charges. Cf. Hammond v. Sheriff, 91 Nev. 176, 532 P.2d 1030 (1975).