State v. Puckett

Kline, Judge. 1

Jesse Puckett appeals the decision of the Scioto County Court of Common Pleas, which denied his motion for a new trial. He argues that he is entitled to a new trial because two of the witnesses who testified against him at his trial later executed affidavits swearing that they had lied at the trial. Because Puckett never filed a transcript of the hearing that the trial court conducted on his motion for a new trial, we consider this appeal without it and find that the trial court did not err in denying Puckett’s motion for a new trial.

I

In February 1995, a grand jury indicted…