Case ID: ohio-st-2d_28/html/0028-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State of Ohio, Appellee, v. Wigglesworth, Appellant.
    [Cite as State v. Wigglesworth (1971), 28 Ohio St. 2d 28.]
    (No. 68-382
    Decided October 20, 1971.)
    
      Mr. James V. Barbuto, prosecuting attorney, and Mr. Stephen M. Gabalac, for appellee.
    
      Mr. Angelo A. Fanelly and Mr. Donald E. Cope, for appellant.
   Per Curiam.

Accordingly, the judgment of the Court of Appeals affirming the sentence of death is reversed and the judgment'of the Court of Appeals affirming the conviction of defendant on the charge of murder in the first degree is affirmed. The cause is remanded to the Court of Common Pleas, with instructions to vacate the journal entry sentencing this defendant to death, and then to sentence defendant to imprisonment in the Ohio State Penitentiary for life as provided for in R. C. 2901.01.

Judgment accordingly.

O’Neill, C. J., Schneider, Herbert, Duncan, Corrigan, Stern and Leach, JJ., concur.