State v. Merritt

Glasser, Judge.

This is an accelerated appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence entered by the Ottawa County Municipal Court. On July 24, 1997, the court found defendant-appellant, Phillip S. Merritt, guilty of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol in violation of R.C. 4511.19(A)(1) after Merritt entered a no contest plea to charges that he violated R.C. 4511.19(A)(1) and (A)(3). From that judgment, appellant now raises the following assignments of error:

“I. Whether the trial court erred as a matter of law when it failed to grant defendant’s (appellant’s)…