State v. Larry

Defendant, Michael Larry, was indicted for manslaughter (Ohio Revised Code §2901.06) in the death of Yidal Bennett, a fourteen-month-old child allegedly killed as a consequence of a boating administered by the defendant on or about late evening on July 29 or the early morning of July 30 in 1973. The defendant and his co-defendant, Yinetta Bennett, mother of the child, were tried together. At the close of the State’s case appellant’s motion for a judgment of acquittal on Ms behalf was denied (Tr. 215-216). .

The defendant did not take the stand and presented only a medical witness (Tr. 342 1 ).…