Shank v. State

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment of conviction of the crime of murder in the first degree, with punishment fixed at death in the electric chair.

It appears that Mark H. Shank, who was a practicing attorney in Akron, Ohio, was in some way connected with Alvin Colley, and at the time was retained to defend a cause of action against one Kenneth Braucher on a note for $275. Braucher at the trial introduced a certain receipt purporting to have been signed by Kaufman, who was dead, and it afterward appeared that said receipt was a forgery, and Braucher was arrested on the last day of the…