Schaff v. State

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Laird Rudolpho Schaff was charged by accusation with thirty-nine counts of prohibited treatment of animals and one count of operating an animal establishment without a permit. The trial court granted a directed verdict of acquittal on the permit charge and ten counts of prohibited treatment. A jury found him guilty on the remaining 29 counts. Schaff appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentence entered on the jury’s verdict. He raises four enumerations of error, alleging that the State failed to prove venue, that he received ineffective assistance of counsel,…