Court Opinion

ID: 3775017
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 07:26:00.347812+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:38:15.753020
License: Public Domain

{¶ 36} I respectfully dissent. In my view, it is improper to use the trial testimony of the child, under age 10, to determine competency to testify at trial as that seems to put the proverbial cart before the horse.
                             JUDGMENT ENTRY
It is ordered that the judgment be affirmed and that appellee recover of appellant costs herein taxed.
The Court finds there were reasonable grounds for this appeal.
It is ordered that a special mandate issue out of this Court directing the Jackson County Common Pleas Court to carry this judgment into execution.
If a stay of execution of sentence and release upon bail has been previously granted, it is continued for a period of sixty days upon the bail previously posted. The purpose of said stay is to allow appellant to file with the Ohio Supreme Court an application for a stay during the pendency of the proceedings in that court. The stay as herein continued will terminate at the expiration of the sixty day period.
The stay will also terminate if appellant fails to file a notice of appeal with the Ohio Supreme Court in the forty-five day period pursuant to Rule II, Sec. 2 of the Rules of Practice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Additionally, if the Ohio Supreme Court dismisses the appeal prior to the expiration of said sixty days, the stay will terminate as of the date of such dismissal.
A certified copy of this entry shall constitute that mandate pursuant to Rule 27 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure. Exceptions.
Harsha, P.J.: Concurs in Judgment  Opinion as to Assignment of Error I  Concurs in Judgment Only as to Assignments of Error II, III, IV  V
McFarland, J.: Dissents with Opinion