Middleburg Hts. v. Brown

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 3193

Syllabus

Crim.R. 29 motion for acquittal manifest weight of the evidence defense of property jury instructions Crim.R. 30 plain error. A defendant-appellant's claim on appeal that she has proven defense of property cannot be subject to a sufficiency claim and, thus, the trial court did not err when it denied defendant-appellant's Crim.R. 29 motion for acquittal. The jury's verdict was not against the manifest weight of the evidence where the defendant-appellant's defense of property claim was not supported by the evidence. The trial court's failure to submit a complete copy of the jury instructions to the jury did not amount to plain error where the court read the complete jury instructions to the jury, the evidence supported defendant-appellant's conviction, and the State met its burden of persuasion at trial.