State v. Loudermill

This appeal is on questions of law from a judgment of conviction and sentence to life imprisonment on a charge of murder in the second degree in violation of Section 2901.05, Revised Code, which reads as follows:

“No person shall purposely and maliciously kill another. Whoever violates this section, except in the manner described in Sections 2901.01, 2901.02, 2901.03, and 2901.04 of the Revised Code, is guilty of murder in the second degree and shall he imprisoned for life.”

The indictment upon which defendant was tried for murder in the second degree charges that defendant on or about February…