Lynch v. State

At the September (1914) term of the court of common pleas of Muskingum county, Ohio, the grand jury of said county returned an indictment against Charles Lynch, the plaintiff in error, charging him in four separate counts with murder in the first degree in killing John G. Albert. *17Upon trial had the plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime charged, and upon a recommendation of mercy by the jury in its verdict he was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. For the purpose of having the judgment and proceedings in the court below reviewed upon proceedings in error, a petition in error was…