State v. Valentine

Stephenson, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the Ironton Municipal Court following a plea of no contest finding Robert Valentine, defendant below and appellant herein, guilty of operating a gambling house, in violation of R.C. 2915.02, a first degree misdemeanor. Appellant assigns the following error:

“The court erred in overruling the defendant’s motion to suppress the search warrant.”

The following facts are pertinent to this appeal. During the afternoon of January 27, 1990, the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department, in conjunction with the Ohio Departments of…