State v. Crump

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 2962

Syllabus

Admission of \gruesome\ photographs; Appellant's duty to raise and cite alleged errors in the record, not court's duty to locate possible errors; photographs involving child's death treated the same as adults, no separate standard exists; photographs admitted for the purpose of showing how investigators discovered the body admissible; photographs of fatal wound admissible; plain error; where indictment challenged as insufficient, it must be raised prior to trial; an indictment charging conspiracy sufficient where the overt act alleged involves communications not only to prepare, but to facilitate commission of offense; evidence sufficient to support conspiracy where the state shows defendant traveled to the crime scene with a codefendant who is communicating plans to a third codefendant; evidence admitted to prove defendant's identity as perpetrator not \bad acts\ evidence as it is admitted for a proper purpose, Evid.R. 404(B)(2); sufficient and credible evidence exists where voluminous circumstantial evidence implicated the defendant; when trial court states on record it considered a psychological report court presumed to have considered that information unless record demonstrates otherwise.