In re Washington

Francis E. Sweeney, Sr., J.

The issues before this court are whether a rebuttable presumption exists that a child under the age of fourteen is incapable of committing the crime of rape and whether sufficient evidence existed to support the trial court’s finding that appellee was delinquent. For the following reasons, we find that (1) no such presumption exists in Ohio, and (2) in the present case the evidence was sufficient to support the trial court’s finding that appellee was delinquent. Accordingly, we reverse the court of appeals’ judgment.

In determining the legal sufficiency of the…