State v. Frazier

Citations

• 2026 Ohio 1275

Syllabus

Sufficiency of the evidence; manifest weight of the evidence; murder; having a weapon while under disability; aiding and abetting; ineffective assistance of counsel; jury instructions; abuse of discretion. Convictions affirmed. There was sufficient evidence to support appellant's convictions for murder and having a weapon while under disability. Appellant's convictions were not against the manifest weight of the evidence where both circumstantial and direct evidence linked appellant to the crimes. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in instructing the jury on a complicity theory of aiding and abetting, nor did its discretion in instructing the jury that it may compare a picture of the suspect at the scene of the crime to appellant's in-court appearance as a defendant at trial. Lastly, trial counsel was not ineffective where trial counsel's actions were a matter of trial strategy.