City of Columbus v. Fisher

The subsection of the municipal ordinance here under review is identical to R. C. 2921.13(A) (3), which statute became effective in 1974 as a part of the new Criminal Code. (See 134 Ohio Laws 1866, 1949-50.) The offense of unsworn falsification with purpose to mislead a public official had no precise parallel in prior state law,2 and was patterned ,after Section 241.3 of the Model Penal Code.3 Originally presented to the American-Law Institute in 1957, as Section 208.22 of Tentative Draft No. 6 of the Model Penal Code, the comments upon this section are quite germane. The following appears at…