Appellant Vazirani’s third proposition of law presents us with the narrow but recurring question of whether a municipality may obtain two convictions for crimes arising out of the same act and circumstances. Specifically, appellant asks us whether selling beer to a person under age nine
R.C. 2941.25 sets the parameters for when the state may obtain convictions for two or more allied crimes of similar import. R.C. 2941.25(A) generаlly bars the state from obtaining convictions for allied offenses of similar import:
“Where the same conduct by defendant can bе construed to constitute-two or more allied offenses of similar import, the indictment or information may contain counts for all such offenses, but the defendant' may be convicted of only one.”
R.C. 2941.25(B) sets forth the only exceptions to this bar, allowing convictiоn for allied offenses of similar import when the defendant’s “* * * conduct results in two or more offenses of the same or similar kind committed separately or with a separate animus as to each * * *.”
We have dealt with the issue of allied offenses of similar impоrt on numerous occasions and have “* * * set forth a two-tiered test to determine whether two crimes with which a defendant is chargеd are allied offenses of similar import * * State v. Blankenship (1988),
“In the first step, the elements of the two crimes are compared. If the elements оf the offenses correspond to such a degree that the commission of one crime will result in the commission of the other, thе crimes are allied offenses of similar import and the court must then proceed to the second step. In the second step, the defendant’s conduct is reviewed to determine whether the defendant can be convicted of both offenses. If the court, finds either that the crimes were committed separately or that there was a separate animus for each crime, the defеndant may be convicted of both offenses. State v. Mughni (1987),33 Ohio St. 3d 65 , 67,514 N.E. 2d 870 , 872; State v. Talley (1985),18 Ohio St. 3d 152 , 153-154, 18 OBR 210, 211-212,480 N.E. 2d 439 , 441; State v. Mitchell (1983),6 Ohio St. 3d 416 , 418, 6 OBR 463, 464,453 N.E. 2d 593 , 594; State v. Logan (1979),60 Ohio St. 2d 126 , 128, 14 O.O. 3d 373, 374,397 N.E. 2d 1345 , 1348.”
Under this analysis, we must first compare the elements of the two offenses with which appellant was charged. Appellant was first charged with the sale of beer to a person under legal age, the elements оf which are an illegal sale, of beer, to a person under nineteen years of age. Appellant was also charged with committing an act tending to cause unruliness or delinquency of a child. The elements of that section are an act, that tends tо cause unruliness or delinquency, in a person under eighteen years of age. John Cooperider was sixteen years of age at the time of sale.
.We think it apparent that the elements of these two crimes are so similar that the commission of onе offense necessarily results in the commission of the other offense as applied to the facts of this case. The offеnses for which appellant was charged were the result of one rapid transaction. A police officer suppliеd the “buy” money. John Cooperider never had the opportunity to consume the beer, since it was immediately turned over to thе police officer supervising this activity.
However, appellant did sell to a person sixteen years of age an
We note that aрpellant was not charged with the offense of aiding, abetting, inducing, causing, encouraging or contributing to unruliness or delinquency in a child.
It must be determined if the two offenses for which appellant was chargеd were committed separately or with a separate animus for each crime. (State v. Blankenship, supra.) It is beyond cavil that the two offenses were committed at one and the same moment and thus could not be committed separately. We would emphasize that no timе span separated the commission of these two offenses.
It is also beyond dispute that defendant possessed no separate animus in the commission of each of these offenses. “Animus” has been defined as “* * * purpose, intent, or motive * * *” by Judge Alba White-side, in his concurring opinion in State v. Blankenship, supra, at 119,
We have found first that under R.C. 2941.25(A) the offenses for whiсh appellant was charged were allied offenses of similar import. Second, under R.C. 2941.25(B) the state has failed to demonstrate the crimes charged were committed separately or with a separate animus for each offense. Thereforе we hold that under R.C. 2941.25(A) appellant may be convicted of only one of the offenses for which he was charged.
We thus reversе on the question of allied offenses of similar import, affirming so much of the opinion of the Court of Appeals for Licking County as does not deal with this question, and remand the cause to the trial court for resentencing in accordance with our opinion.
Judgmеnt affirmed in part, reversed in part and cause remanded.
Notes
So reads Newark Codified Ordinances Section 636.125(a)(1) (corresponding to R.C. 2919.24[A][1]).