State v. Herrman

This is an appeal on questions of law from an order of the Common Pleas Court of Montgomery County, Ohio, quashing an indictment returned by the grand jurors of Montgomery County against defendant, appellee herein, Jerome J. Herrman, a police officer of the city of Dayton, Ohio.

The indictment charges that Jerome J. Herrman, from January 29,1960, through February 6, 1960, in the County of Montgomery and state of Ohio, did, by color of and in the execution of his office as a policeman of the city of Dayton, Ohio, willfully oppress one Harold Beaty, contrary to the form of the statute in such…