State v. Finnegan

This cause came on to be heard upon an appeal from the Hamilton County Municipal Court.

On December 17, 1981, an employee of the city of Cincinnati was operating a municipally owned truck assigned to the municipal garage. As he was returning to the garage from a service call to a district fire station, he parked the vehicle in the parking lot of a restaurant at approximately 2:30 a.m. in order to pick up food to take to the garage for himself and a coworker who remained at the garage. While he was in the restaurant he noticed that someone had opened the door to the truck. The employee returned…