State v. Besancon

Dickinson, Presiding Judge.

INTRODUCTION

{¶ 1} Matthew Besancon was driving a pick-up truck that was pulling a livestock trailer when he was stopped by a state trooper for not displaying a license plate on the trailer. Besancon told the trooper that he was on his way to a livestock auction and that he was using the trailer to transport cattle to the auction. The municipal court found him guilty of failure to display a license plate in violation of R.C. 4503.21(A). Besancon has appealed, arguing that he did not have to display a license plate on the trailer because it was “[f]arm machinery”…