State v. Smith

Defendant-appellant Evelyne F. Smith has taken the instant appeal from her conviction of four counts of theft in office. On appeal, Smith presents three assignments of error in which she challenges the sufficiency of the evidence adduced at trial to support her convictions and the balance struck by the trial court, sitting as the trier of fact, in weighing the evidence before it.

The charges against Smith arose in connection with an investigation conducted by the Hamilton County Sheriffs Office at the behest of the State Auditor’s Office into allegations of irregularities within the Hamilton…