State v. Chapman

Citations

• 2018 Ohio 4560

Syllabus

Appellant's felonious assault conviction was supported by sufficient evidence and otherwise not against the manifest weight of the evidence where the evidence, if believed, established appellant as the perpetrator who caused the victim to suffer serious physical harm by inflicting several blows to the victim's head with a firearm appellant used as a \bludgeon.\ The state, however, did not provide sufficient evidence to support appellant's conviction for a three-year firearm specification where the evidence presented at trial did not indicate the firearm appellant used to beat the victim over the head was operable, or capable of being readily rendered operable, in that appellant neither explicitly nor implicitly threatened to shoot the victim at the time the offense occurred.