Case Name: The State, ex rel. Murphy, v. Woodard, Warden, et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1938-12-07
Citations: 134 Ohio St. 521
Docket Number: No. 27336
Parties: The State, ex rel. Murphy, v. Woodard, Warden, et al.
Judges: Weygandt, C. J., Matthias, Dixon, Day, Zimmerman, Williams and Myers, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 134
Pages: 521–522

Head Matter:
The State, ex rel. Murphy, v. Woodard, Warden, et al.
(No. 27336
Decided December 7, 1938.)
Mr. Charles S. Druggan and Messrs. Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, for relator.
Mr. Herbert S. Duffy, attorney general, and Mr. Will P. Stephenson, for respondents.

Opinion:
This cause came on to be heard on the petition and the evidence, and was argued by counsel for the relator and 'by the Attorney General of the state of Ohio, by his assistant, Will P. Stephenson, appearing on behalf of the respondents; on consideration whereof and on the consent of the Attorney General of the state of Ohio, the court finds in favor of the relator and that a peremptory writ of mandamus should be allowed, as prayed for in the petition.
It is, therefore, ordered and adjudged that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue, commanding the respondents, James C. Woodard, as Warden of the Ohio Penitentiary, and August F. Ptak, as Deputy Warden of the Ohio Penitentiary, to permit the relator, Mark Murphy, in his capacity as reporter for the Columbus Citizen, to be present at the execution of Anna Marie Hahn, at the Ohio Penitentiary, on the 7th day of December, 1938.
Writ allowed.
Weygandt, C. J., Matthias, Dixon, Day, Zimmerman, Williams and Myers, JJ., concur.