State v. Wright

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 672

Syllabus

OVI — R.C. 4511.01(HHH) —SUFFICIENCY— MANIFEST WEIGHT: In an OVI prosecution, the State presented sufficient evidence of operation under R.C. 4511.01(HHH), and defendant's OVI conviction was not against the manifest weight of the evidence where police found defendant unconscious in the driver's seat of a vehicle parked at a gas station with drug paraphernalia in his hand, defendant admitted to driving the car from his parents' home to the gas station 20 minutes prior to police contact, defendant stipulated that he was intoxicated when police found him, and the State introduced a toxicology report showing the presence of a number of chemical substances in defendant's system.