State v. Dawn

This cause came on to be heard upon the appeal; transcript of the docket and journal entries and original papers from the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County; the assignment of error; and the briefs of the parties, which were submitted without oral argument.

On August 16, 1974, defendant Henry Clay Dawn, the appellant herein, entered a plea of guilty to having stolen, along with two co-defendants, two paintings by Rembrandt, entitled, “Portrait of an Elderly Woman” and “Man Leaning on a Sill.” On October 21, 1974, the defendant was sentenced to serve a term of not less than one nor more…