State v. Greer

In State v. Greer, Union App. No. 14-99-26, 1999 Ohio 940, over a five-day period Greer wrote 11 checks on a closed account to a single local business in exchange for merchandise, gasoline, and cash, for a total of $ 739.14. Greer argued that the series of thefts were separate and distinct and not committed while acting in the "same employment, capacity, or relationship to another" and thus should not have been prosecuted as a single offense under R.C. 2913.61(C)(1). The court disagreed, finding that "the phrase 'to another' connotes that the offender must have stolen from the same person or entity while carrying on in her same relationship." In Greer, the court reasoned that Greer had committed a series of theft offenses against just one victim, as a customer, and thus each act of theft was committed while acting in a relationship to another.