State v. Pflanz

Winkler, Judge.

Defendant-appellant Steven Pflanz was convicted, after a bench trial, of one count of assault in violation of R.C. 2903.13, a misdemeanor of the first degree. Pflanz raises two assignments of error for our review; however, we sua sponte remove this case from the accelerated calendar to address an issue that renders those assignments of error moot and necessitates a reversal of this case.

While conducting our complete review of the record to assess the merits of Pflanz’s first assignment of error dealing with weight and sufficiency of the evidence, we discovered that Pflanz filed…