State v. Atkinson

The question here is whether the indictment may withstand defendant’s motion attacking its validity.

Section 2941.04 of the Revised Code, in part, sets out in clear and unambiguous language the limitations upon the charging of two or more different offenses in an indictment, as follows :

“An indictment or information may charge two or more different offenses connected together in their commission, or different statements of the same offense, or two or more different offenses of the same class of crimes or offenses, under separate counts, and if two or more indictments or informations are filed…