Nevada Supreme Court December 15, 1964, No. 4739 (Hancock v. State)

*582OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, J.:

On Christmas Day 1962 Hancock and one Livingston Johnson engaged in a fight which ended rather abruptly when Hancock, using a straight razor, cut the left side of Johnson’s neck from behind and above the left ear down to the midline just below the Adam’s apple — an incision about 8 inches long, shallow at the upper and lower margins, but about one-half inch