State v. Settles

Defendant James E. Settles has been charged with a violation of R.C. 4507.33, which states as follows: “No person shall authorize or knowingly permit a motor vehicle owned by him or under his control to be driven by any person who has no legal right to do so or whose act of driving said vehicle would violate sections 4507.01 to 4507.39, inclusive, of the Revised Code.”

The facts are not in dispute, and were adduced by the testimony of the state’s sole witness, Deputy Ronald Doyle of the Hamilton County Sheriffs Department. At the time of the incident, defendant Settles operated a commercial…