State v. Keaton

This is an appeal from two judgments of the Court of Common Pleas of Pickaway County, wherein defendant was adjudged guilty of premeditated murder, with a recommendation of mercy and of killing another in the perpetration of a robbery. The jury withheld recommendation of mercy in its verdict on the latter count.

The trial court, on motion of defendant, refused to reduce the penalties imposed, overruled a motion for a new trial, and sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment on the first count and imposed the death penalty on the second.

Defendant, feeling aggrieved by the judgments of the…