State v. Holmes

Christley, Judge.

This is an appeal by appellant, Charles W. Holmes, from his conviction on three counts of aggravated trafficking in drugs, in violation of R.C. 2925.-03(A)(1) following a three-day trial. He was sentenced to three indefinite terms of three to fifteen years, with two of the terms to run concurrently and the third to run consecutively.

Appellant’s convictions were predicated upon a series of three drug transactions in which he and a co-defendant allegedly sold cocaine to an informant for the Ashtabula County Narcotics Task Force. During each of the alleged deals, the informant…