State v. Jones

R.C. 2903.06 provides in part:

“(A) No person, while operating or participating in the operation of a motor vehicle, motorcycle, snowmobile, locomotive, watercraft, or aircraft, shall recklessly cause the death of another.

“(B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of aggravated vehicular homicide, a felony of the fourth degree. * * *”

This case presents the issue of whether an individual may be convicted of a separate violation of R.C. 2903.06 for each person killed as the result of a single instance of that individual’s reckless operation of his vehicle.

For the reasons that follow we hold…