State v. Zackery

This cause came on to be heard upon the appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County.

This timely appeal follows appellant’s conviction by jury of felonious assault, in violation of R.C. 2903.11. Appellant was also found guilty, in a separate hearing, of the specification that appellant had previously been convicted of an offense substantially equivalent to a felony of the first degree.

The principal question is whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain appellant’s conviction of felonious assault with a deadly weapon under R.C. 2903.11(A)(2).

The twenty-year-old female victim…