Luff v. State

This controversy arises out of an alleged embezzlement which is charged as having been committed May 5, 1919, and in this year of grace, 1927, is still occupying the attention of the courts of Ohio, with a fair prospect of being transferred at an early date to the Supreme Court of the United States.

As indicating the woeful state into which criminal practice, procedure, and administration have fallen, and as illustrating the wealth of technicality and the poverty of substance to which counsel may resort and to which courts sometimes lend a willing ear in the administration of criminal justice,…