Sabo v. State

John Sabo, plaintiff in error, was convicted of the crime' of murder in the first degree, and there being no recommendation of mercy, he was sentenced to death. The record of the proceedings of his trial is before us on a petition in error.

The claim of the state was that Sabo and his chum, Lengyel, had a fight with one Gruich on May 5, 1926, and that thereafter Sabo made threats against Gruich; that on the evening of May 25, 1926, Sabo and Lengyel went in the latter’s automobile near the intersection of certain streets in Akron where it was expected Gruich would pass; that, on the way, they…