Nevada Supreme Court

Bolden v. State

Rudy Bolden, Appellant v. the State of Nevada, Respondent

97 Nev. 71 · 624 P.2d 20

Decided February 25, 1981

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Summary

The Nevada Supreme Court affirmed Rudy Bolden's robbery conviction, holding that substantial evidence supported the jury's verdict. The court declined to reweigh conflicting identification and alibi evidence because credibility determinations belong to the jury and a supported verdict will not be disturbed on appeal.

Holdings

  • Sufficiency of the evidence supporting the robbery conviction. The evidence was sufficient to support the jury's verdict, and the conviction would not be disturbed on appeal. 73

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How later courts treated this case

180 opinions cite this case

  • Cited

    Raspperry (Kevin) v. State. jury verdict not disturbed where substantial evidence supports it

  • Cited

    Fox (Derek) Vs. State, 484 P.3d 277. Court references Bolden for precedent on jury verdicts despite conflicting testimony

  • Cited

    Baehr (Tracy) Vs. State, 475 P.3d 769. The court references Bolden to affirm deference to the jury's fact‑finding.

  • Applied

    Gould (Steven) v. State. We discern no plain error.

  • Applied

    Gillen (Martin) Vs. State, 486 P.3d 725. citing Farmer for joinder cross‑admissibility

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Opinion of the Court

OPINION

By the Court,

Mowbray, J.:

A jury convicted Rudy Bolden of robbery. He seeks reversal on the sole ground that the evidence presented at his trial did not support the jury’s verdict. We disagree and affirm Bolden’s judgment of conviction.

THE FACTS

Bolden, on February 14, 1979, pointed a .38 caliber revolver at a food checker in a grocery store and grabbed a handful of currency from the cash register. He fled the premises. The checker, soon after the robbery, identified an old photograph of Bolden from 250 prints at the police station. She repeated the identification several weeks later from a more recent picture. Finally, the checker made positive in-court identification of Bolden.

SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE TO CONVICT

Appellant presented an alibi defense: he and his aunt testified that he was in Louisiana on February 13 and 14, 1979; he *73 introduced an envelope, without a letter, postmarked February 13, 1979, mailed from Louisiana and purportedly bearing Bolden’s nickname “Shyface” as the return addressee.

This Court has repeatedly held as recently as Stewart v. State, 94 Nev. 378, 580 P.2d 473 (1978) “that where ‘there is conflicting testimony presented, it is for the jury to determine what weight and credibility to give to the testimony.’ Hankins v. State, 91 Nev. 477, 538 P.2d 167, 168 (1975). Accord, Lloyd v. State, 94 Nev. 167, 576 P.2d 740 (1978); Porter v. State, 94 Nev. 142, 576 P.2d 275 (1978). Where, as here, there is substantial evidence to support the jury’s verdict, it will not be disturbed on appeal. Cunningham v. State, 94 Nev. 128, 575 P.2d 936 (1978); Sanders v. State, 90 Nev. 433, 529 P.2d 206 (1974).”

For these reasons we affirm the appellant’s judgment of conviction.

Gunderson, C. J., and Manoukian, Batjer, and Springer, JJ., concur.

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