State v. Vinson

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 2031

Syllabus

Judgment affirmed and appellant's two assignments of error are overruled. The jury's verdict convicting appellant of multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, felonious assault, and having weapons while under disability were not against the manifest weight of the evidence, nor was the state's evidence legally insufficient to prove the charges. The overwhelming quantity of evidence produced by the state included eyewitness testimony of the shootings as well as the appellant's own admissions, and the jury rejected appellant's testimony claiming that he acted in self-defense. Further, it was not plain error for the trial court to not provide a jury instruction on transferred intent self-defense. Because the jury did not accept appellant's theory of self-defense to justify his action when it convicted appellant of attempted murder for shooting the intended victim, it would not have \transferred\ this asserted justification as an element of the murder charge against the actual victim.