Case Name: Ewing v. The State of Ohio
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1910-04-19
Citations: 82 Ohio St. 419
Docket Number: No. 12138
Parties: Ewing v. The State of Ohio.
Judges: Crew, Spear, Davis and Shauck, JJ., concur. Price, J., dissents.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 82
Pages: 419–420

Head Matter:
No. 12138.
Ewing v. The State of Ohio.
Decided April 19, 1910.
Error to Circuit Court of Athens county.
Mr. M. S. Webster and Messrs. Grosvenor, Jones & Worst ell, for plaintiff in error.
Mr. I. M. Foster, for defendant in error.
Judgments of circuit court and court of common pleas reversed and defendant discharged. Grounds stated in journal entry.

Opinion:
It is ordered and adjudged by this court, that the judgment of the said circuit court be, and the same hereby is, reversed for error in affirming instead of reversing the judgment of the court of common pleas for error committed by said court of common pleas in overruling defendant's motion made at the conclusion of the state's evidence in chief, and renewed at the conclusion of all the evidence, to direct the jury to return a verdict for the defendant. And this court proceeding to render the judgment the circuit court should have rendered, it is considered and adjudged that the judgment of the court of common pleas be and the same hereby is reversed and held for naught and the plaintiff in error, Emmett Ewing, is discharged.
Crew, Spear, Davis and Shauck, JJ., concur. Price, J., dissents.