State v. Gales

Gene Donofrio, Presiding Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Lively Gales, appeals from the judgment of the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court entered upon his guilty plea to two counts of felonious assault.

On September 2, 1996, Harry Watkins and Dorothy Horton, a woman whom appellant dated, were traveling in an automobile on Plum Street in Youngstown when a man ran out of a wooded area and fired shots at the car. Watkins was shot in the head. Two days later, appellant was arrested for the shooting. The Youngstown Municipal Court bound appellant over to the Mahoning County Grand Jury, which indicted…