State v. Cousin

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence of the appellant by the Court of Common Pleas of Seneca County for the offense of voluntary manslaughter in violation of R.C. 2903.03(A). The defendant-appellant, Joselyn Cousin, asserts three assignments of error:

I. It is asserted that it is grounds for reversal when an indictment charging the defendant with murder is founded upon a death which has been determined by the county coroner to have been an accidental death and which ruling was not the subject of an operative order by the court of common pleas for a change thereof.

This…