STATE v. ABBOTT

No. 31741.

152 Ohio St. 228 (1949)

THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLEE, v. ABBOTT, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided November 23, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Jackson Bosch, prosecuting attorney, for appellee.

Mr. William F. Hopkins and Mr. Gilbert E. Condo, for appellant.


HART, J.

The principal question in the appeal to this court is whether, where two defendants are jointly indicted for first degree murder and it is disclosed, preceeding the trial of the codefendants, that signed confessions by one of them made in the absence of the other will be offered in evidence, which confessions implicate such other, it is prejudicial error as to the latter codefendant for the trial court to grant, over such codefendant's objection, the state...

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