State v. Tolbert

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 197

Syllabus

Sufficiency of the evidence R.C. 2929.14(C) consecutive sentences. Appellant contended that the state could not produce sufficient evidence to support a conviction for involuntary manslaughter. However, the court found that the state had produced sufficient circumstantial evidence to sustain a conviction as a reasonable juror could have inferred that the victim suffered child abuse in the custody of appellant and the conduct that constituted child abuse also proximately caused the victim's death. The court sustained appellant's assignment of error with respect to consecutive sentences. The trial court neither expressly made the disproportionality findings required by R.C. 2929.14(C) nor made any statement showing that the court considered those factors using different language.