State v. Wright

20 N.E.2d 229, 135 Ohio St. 187, 135 Ohio St. (N.S.) 187, 14 Ohio Op. 14, 1939 Ohio LEXIS 257

• Court: Ohio Supreme Court
• Decided: March 22, 1939
• Docket: 27317
• Status: Published

Opinion

By the Court.

Harold Wright was found guilty by a jury in the Court of Common Pleas of Franklii county, Division of Domestic Relations, of being tin father of a child by an unmarried female. He filed a motion for new trial and a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. The latter was overruled but the motion for new trial was sustained.

The state appealed on questions of law to the Court of Appeals, which court overruled a motion to dismiss the appeal, finding that there was no abuse of discretion by the trial court in granting a motion for new trial, and that Section 12223-2, General Code (117 Ohio Laws, 615), was constitutional, and affirmed the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas.

Finding its judgment in conflict with that of the Court of Appeals of the First Appellate District in Fulton v. Madlener, 57 Ohio App., 345, 14 N. E. (2d), 27, and also with a judgment of the Court of Appeals of the Seventh Appellate District, the judges of the Court of Appeals of the Second Appellate District certified the record to this court for review and final determination.

This court having held the questioned provision of amended Section 12223-2, General Code, unconstitutional in the case of Hoffman v. Knollman, ante, 170, the judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed and the cause is remanded to that court with instructions to dismiss the appeal and for further proceedings in accordance with law.

Judgment reversed.

Weygandt, C. J., Day, Zimmerman, Williams, Myers, Matthias and Hart, JJ., concur.