Christopher v. McFaul

The question before this court is whether the trial court and the court of appeals abused their discretion by failing to grant petitioner bail pending final disposition of his case on appeal. In Coleman v. McGettrick (1965), 2 Ohio St. 2d 177,180 [31 O.O.2d 326], this court stated as follows:

*234“* * *[T]he release of an accused on bail after conviction and pending appeal is not a matter of right but a question to be resolved by an exercise of the sound discretion of the court. Only if there is a patent abuse of such discretion should the decision of the court denying bail be disturbed.”

Petitioner…