After roughly four hours of weighing evidence and witness testimony during a preliminary hearing Thursday, Carson City Justice Court Department I Judge Thomas Armstrong ruled there was enough probable cause to bind over 25-year-old Da’Lecs Smith to district court on an open murder charge.
Smith’s arraignment before First Judicial District Court Department I Judge Jason Woodbury was set for 9 a.m. Dec. 29.
Smith will answer to the open murder charge with a deadly weapon (including first degree murder and all lesser included offenses, a category A felony) and one count of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, a category C felony…