1873 — Nevada — Dueling

1 M. S. Bonnifield & T. W. Healy, The Compiled Laws of the State of Nevada. Embracing Statutes of 1861 to 1873, Inclusive 563 (1873)

Summary

Prohibited dueling with pistols, long guns, and knives. If a death ensued in a duel, the survivor was to be charged with first degree murder.

Statutory Text

2341. SEC. 35. If any person shall by previous appointment or agreement, fight a duel with a rifle, shotgun, pistol, bowie knife, dirk, smallsword, backsword, or other dangerous weapon, and in doing shall kill his antagonist, or any person or persons, or shall inflict such wound as that the party or parties injured shall die thereof within one year thereafter, every such offender shall be deemed guiltily of murder in the first degree and upon conviction thereof shall be punished accordingly.

2342. SEC. 36. Any person who shall engage in a duel with any deadly weapon although no homicide ensue or shall challenge another to fight such duel, or shall send or deliver any verbal or written message reporting or intending to be such challenge, although no duel ensue, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison not less than two nor more than ten years, and shall be incapable of voting or holiding any office of trust or profit under the laws of this State.

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Title 1873 — Nevada — Dueling
Conduct Use
Instrument Edged Weapons, Firearms
Jurisdiction NV
Date 1873