Paul Stout v. William H. Dallman

PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

Paul Stout appeals from the denial of his application for writ of habeas corpus.

At a jury trial in the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County, Ohio, Stout was convicted of armed robbery in violation of Ohio Revised Code § 2901.13, which provides as follows: “No person, while armed with a pistol, knife, or other dangerous weapon, by force or violence, or by putting in fear, shall steal from the person of another anything of value.”

He was sentenced to imprisonment of not less than ten years nor more than twenty-five years.

His conviction was affirmed by the Butler County…