State v. Thomason

Citations

• 2018 Ohio 1228

Syllabus

Defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to ask the trial court to instruct the jury to disregard comments made by a State witness after he made two separate objections to specific portions of her testimony that were sustained. Trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to request a jury instruction for self-defense since the evidence adduced at trial did not support that affirmative defense. The State adduced sufficient evidence to support appellant's conviction for felonious assault with a deadly weapon, and the verdict was not against the manifest weight of the evidence. Judgment affirmed.