Tolliver v. State

BY THE COURT

The facts referred to, supplemented by all of the other proven facts, do not in our opinion make anything like a case of murder in the first degree. If, as the Supreme Court held, the 'facts in the opinion in Foster v. State, 90 Oh St 241, disclosed no evidence of deliberate and premeditated malice surely it can not be said that the record in this case shows deliberate and premedi-' tated malice beyond ,a reasonable doubt, for in our judgment the Foster case was a stronger one for the state so far as murder in the first degree is concerned than is the case at bar.

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