State v. Smith

Defendant, having entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity, was found guilty and sentenced by the Court of Common Pleas of Henry County in a trial to a three judge panel of the crime of aggravated murder (E. C. 2903.01). He appeals assigning as error that “the verdict of guilty rendered by the court was contrary to law and against the manifest weight of the evidence in that: (A) the prosecution failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the appellant was not insane, at the time of the killing after that affirmative defense had been properly raised and presented to…