State v. Parks

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

The facts of this case are not in dispute. The defendant-appellant, Richard C. Parks, a law student at Capital University, and, pertinently, not a student at Ohio State University (“OSU”), attempted to procure an OSU student identification card under the name of his brother, an OSU student. An observant clerk, noting that appellant had misspelled his brother’s name while signing the card, alerted the campus police who were able to detain appellant.

This case was tried to the court on February 14, 1983, and…