State v. Jackson

This cause came on to be heard upon an appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette County.

Appellant, Billy Jackson, an eighteen-year-old man without a prior felony record, was charged with violating R.C. 2913.51 in that he received and/or retained certain stolen property, to wit: photographic equipment worth $300 or more and a .32 caliber semi-automatic pistol. A jury found Jackson guilty of the offense and he was sentenced to a term of one year in the Mansfield Reformatory.

A timely appeal was initiated raising two issues in the following single assignment of error:

"The trial court erred…