State v. Ogletree

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 371

Syllabus

Sufficiency of the evidence; felonious assault; serious physical harm; deadly weapon; scissors; manifest weight of the evidence; credibility. The victim's testimony that the offender often carried a knife or screwdriver in his pocket; the offender stabbed her in the face with either scissors or an object pulled from his pocket; the interaction resulted in an injury that required stitches; the offender made several comments that the victim interpreted as threats upon her life; and the responding police officer's testimony that she observed the victim with a severe injury requiring stitches served as sufficient evidence to show the offender used a deadly weapon to cause serious physical harm and support the offender's felonious-assault convictions. After weighing the evidence and all reasonable inferences and considering the credibility of the witnesses, we find the defendant's convictions of felonious assault were not against the manifest weight of the evidence.