State v. Patterson

Fain, Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Beverly Patterson, appeals from her conviction and sentence for theft by deception. Although Patterson pled no contest to the charge, she contends that the trial court erred by overruling her motion to dismiss the indictment because, even if she misrepresented her household situation in her application for food stamps, that misrepresentation did not result in her having received food stamps to which she was not entitled.

We conclude that the indictment pleads that Patterson obtained property or services of the state of Ohio as a result of a knowing…