Legal Opinion
State v. Lancaster
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided February 17, 1971No. 69-762PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSchneider, J.
The basic question at the trial was the identity of the person who committed the crime. The prosecuting witness, Raymond Sigler, a night attendant at a Columbus gas station, testified that at about 4:00 a. m. on September 3, 1965, he was robbed of $90 and shot in the back of the neck by a man he later identified as Thomas Eugene Lancaster.
Sigler stated that the accused drove into the service station in a dirty, small car. After the car’s tank was filled with gas, the driver of the car pulled a small caliber gun from his coat pocket, took Sigler’s money, forced the victim into the station’s…
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