State v. Williams

Cunningham, Judge.

{¶ 1} Following a bench trial, defendant-appellant, Damonta L. Williams, appeals from the conviction and sentence imposed for having a weapon under disability. A police officer searching a vehicle in which Williams had been a passenger found a loaded handgun on the floor of the rear seat that Williams had occupied. In four assignments of error, Williams argues that the state employed constitutionally defective prior convictions to demonstrate that he was under a disability and challenges the weight and sufficiency of the evidence adduced to establish that he had…