State v. Shank

John W. Shank has appealed to this court on questions of law from the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County, finding him to be an habitual criminal and sentencing him to life imprisonment in the Ohio Penitentiary.

Shank was indicted by the G-rand Jury of Franklin County on February 28, 1961, and this indictment will hereinafter be referred to as the 1961 indictment. It contains a single count which describes therein four felonies alleged to have been committed by Shank and alleges that Shank pleaded guilty to all four, thereby bringing him under the terms of the habitual…