State v. Hill

Late on the night of February 19, 1966, Raymond Pounds, standing behind a cash register counter of a food market in the city of Lorain, was shot in the head and killed by the close discharge of a shotgun fired by an individual who was there for the purpose of robbery and who was apprehended a short time later.

A clerk in the market at the time of the murder identified defendant as the one who fired the fatal blast, and a man on the outside of the market identified defendant as one who ran from the market immediately after the shooting. There was other corroborating evidence identifying the…