State v. Weed

These are appeals on questions of law from judgments of the Common Pleas Court of Franklin County entered in criminal cases upon pleas of guilty.

While there are eight separate appeals, taken by eight different defendants, it is conceded and agreed by counsel that the issues of fact and law in the separate appeals are identical in substance and that, therefore, the separate appeals are considered as one case.

The eight defendants were indicted in three indictments for acts committed in connection with the strike at the North American Aviation plant in Columbus, Ohio. Defendants Weed, Bothman…