State v. Grady

Appellant, Michael Grady, takes this appeal from a commitment to ten days in county jail following a finding of delinquency by the juvenile court on January 29, 1981.

On November 12, 1980, a complaint was filed alleging that appellant, age about seventeen, had unlawfully retained or disposed of a Moped bicycle belonging to another which he had “reasonable cause” to believe had been stolen (R.C. 2913.51, receiving stolen property).

On January 29, 1981 (after appellant became eighteen years of age), this matter was heard before a judge in juvenile court. Appellant, who appeared with his mother…