State v. Howard

Spellacy, Judge.

On September 30, 1987, defendant-appellant Berdee R. Howard (“appellant”) was indicted by the Cuyahoga County Grand Jury for three counts of passing bad checks, in violation of R.C. 2913.11. At her arraignment on October 15, 1987, appellant pleaded not guilty. Immediately, thereafter, appellant was taken into custody by United States marshals on a federal warrant.

On November 4, 1987, appellant’s case was called for a pretrial. Appellant failed to appear because she was being held in the Ottawa County Jail. Thus, the trial court ordered the sheriff’s department to place a…