State v. Hawkins

Betty Hawkins was convicted in the Court of Common Pleas, Belmont County, Ohio, of the crime of murder in the second degree and on November 26, 1954, she was correctly sentenced by Judge Ross Michener of that court to imprisonment in the Ohio Reformatory for Women until legally released. She was not sentenced to imprisonment in that institution during life, nor could the judge lawfully have done so.

On November 27, 1954, counsel for Betty Hawkins filed her notice of appeal on questions of law, and her appeal is now pending for hearing and decision in this Court of Appeals, whereupon she filed…