Case Name: LAYER v. STATE
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923-06-28
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 798
Docket Number: No. 537
Parties: LAYER v. STATE
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 798–798

Head Matter:
No. 819
LAYER v. STATE
Ohio Appeals, 2d District, Montgomery County
No. 537.
June 28, 1923
129. CRIMINAL LAW.
Voluntary confessions of accused in homicide held not prejudicial error.
Attorneys — Frank W. Krehbiel and Joseph Murphy, for Layer; Albert Scharrer, Pi’os. Atty., Charles J. Brennan and Rolla M. Galloway, for State.

Opinion:
FERNEDING, J.
Epitomized Opinion
Layer was charged with the murder of a boy 13 years of age who was found in a field strangled, and was convicted of murder in the first degree without mercy and was sentenced to electrocution. He prosecuted error to this court, alleging that the trial court erred (1) in admitting confessions Layer was alleged to have made to police officers and to fellow prisoners and to a newspaper reporter, and (2) in admitting testimony as to various other acts of criminal treatment by the accused to other children. Held:
An examination of the evidence shows that the confession to the police officers was not extorted; the other confessions were clearly voluntary. This evidence was properly admitted. The evidence as to the other offenses were admissible under 104 OS. 298. The trial was fair and without prejudicial error. Judgment affirmed.