DOYLE, P. J.
The relator, Joe F. Lancaster, presently a prisoner in the Ohio State Penitentiary, following his conviction of the crime of first degree murder, has filed in this court a petition styled "petition for an alternative writ of mandamus." Stephen C. Colopy, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Summit County, Ohio (the trial judge in the Lancaster murder case), is the real named defendant.
It is alleged in the petition that Judge Colopy "has unscrupously...
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