State v. Secessions

Dickinson, Judge.

INTRODUCTION

{¶ 1} After leaving her job for the night, Malissa Smith-Cage drove her coworker Dedosha Smith, Smith’s boyfriend Timothy Secessions, and Secessions’s friend Gordon Mosley to an after-hours bar. At the bar, Smith told Smith-Cage that she had lost some money in Smith-Cage’s car, so Smith-Cage helped her look for it. As Smith-Cage was looking under the driver’s seat, Secessions allegedly grabbed her neck from behind and demanded her money. The grand jury indicted Secessions for aggravated robbery and robbery. A jury found him guilty of robbery, and the trial court…