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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 992
    LYON v. STATE
    No. 20084.
    Supreme Court
    Motion for leave to file petition in error.
    Dock. Sept. 3, 1926;
    4 Abs. 623.
    333. CRIMINAL LAW — Is it error for the court, in a murder trial, to allow admissions of other crimes on ground that they show motive?
    465. ERROR — Is it error when judgment on verdict is on two counts, one of first degree murder, the other, murder while committing robbery, on theory that murdered man was an officer trying to arrest him and malice could not be predicated on second count?
    Attorneys — M. O. Kettig, Toledo, for Lyon; Edgar G. Martin, Pros. Atty., Huron Co., for State.
   Lyon contends in the Supreme Court that in a prosecution for murder, it is error to introduce evidence of other crimes even though court instructed jury, that such evidence was but to show motive.

Should judgment on verdict of first degree murder without recommendation of mercy, where accused tried on two counts, one of murder with premeditation, second, murder while committing robbery, be reversed on theory that accused was not attempting to rob but that murdered man was an officer attempting to arrest him and malice could not be predicated upon the second count.