State v. Lewis

Hadley, Presiding Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Gary D. Lewis, appeals from a judgment entry of conviction filed in the Allen County Court of Common Pleas, after a jury returned a verdict finding appellant guilty of aggravated theft, pursuant to R.C. 2913.02.

The testimony at trial elicited the following facts. Frances Shepherd (“Shepherd”) became acquainted with appellant sometime prior to 1982 after appellant, in his capacity as a city of Lima police officer, responded to Shepherd’s phone calls to check on her house. 1 After appellant began responding to Shepherd’s phone calls, he began doing…