Case Title: Taylor v. Mitchell

Citation: 2000-Ohio-380

Docket Number: 19992069

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2000-05-17T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as Taylor v. Mitchell, 88 Ohio St.3d 453, 2000-Ohio-380.] 
 
 
 
 
 
TAYLOR, APPELLANT, v. MITCHELL, WARDEN, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as Taylor v. Mitchell (2000), 88 Ohio St.3d 453.] 
Habeas corpus sought to compel prison warden to release relator from prison — 
Dismissal of petition affirmed. 
(No. 99-2069 — Submitted April 11, 2000 — Decided May 17, 2000.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Richland County, No. 99-CA-72. 
 
In June 1991, appellant, Gerald Taylor, abducted a woman at gunpoint in 
Bedford Heights, Ohio, and transported her to Cleveland, where he raped her.  In 
October 1991, a Cuyahoga County jury found him guilty, as charged in the 
indictment, of two counts of rape, one count of kidnapping, and one count of 
aggravated robbery, with various specifications, and the trial court sentenced 
Taylor to an aggregate prison term of twenty-three to fifty years. 
 
In September 1999, Taylor filed a petition in the court of appeals for a writ 
of habeas corpus.  Taylor claimed that his trial court lacked jurisdiction over his 
kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges because no criminal complaints were 
ever filed charging him with those offenses, and the Bedford Municipal Court 
lacked territorial and subject-matter jurisdiction over his rape charges because 
these offenses occurred in Cleveland. 
 
In October 1999, the court of appeals sua sponte dismissed the petition. 
 
This cause is now before the court upon an appeal as of right. 
__________________ 
 
Gerald Taylor, pro se. 
 
Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Michele M. Schoeppe, 
Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. 
__________________ 
 
 
2
 
Per Curiam.  We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.  Any defect 
caused by the alleged failure to file criminal complaints or the claimed impropriety 
of the municipal court’s assumption of jurisdiction over the rape charges is not 
cognizable in habeas corpus.  Taylor was convicted and sentenced upon an 
indictment regularly issued, and the common pleas court had jurisdiction to try, 
convict, and sentence him on the charged offenses.  See State ex rel. Dozier v. 
Mack (1999), 85 Ohio St.3d 368, 369, 708 N.E.2d 712, 713; see, also, Simpson v. 
Maxwell (1964), 1 Ohio St.2d 71, 30 O.O.2d 40, 203 N.E.2d 324; Orr v. Mack 
(1998), 83 Ohio St.3d 429, 430, 700 N.E.2d 590, 591 (“[A]fter a conviction for 
crimes charged in an indictment, the judgment binds the defendant for the crime 
for which he was convicted.”).1 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur. 
FOOTNOTE: 
 
1. 
Taylor waived the additional claims he raises on appeal by failing to 
raise them in the court of appeals.  Brown v. Leonard (1999), 86 Ohio St.3d 593, 
716 N.E.2d 183.