State v. Pargeon

Milligan, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence entered upon a jury verdict of guilty of two counts of domestic violence, a violation of R.C. 2919.25.

Defendant-appellant, Randy D. Pargeon (“appellant”), assigns the following as error:

“I. The trial court erred by permitting the state to elicit expert testimony, in its case in chief, from a director of a battered woman’s shelter without any psychological or psychiatric training, that the victim of domestic violence was suffering from battered woman’s syndrome.

“II. The court erred by charging the jury that the…