Title: State ex rel. Raglin v. Brigano

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

THE STATE EX REL. RAGLIN, APPELLANT, v. BRIGANO, WARDEN, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as State ex rel. Raglin v. Brigano (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.] 
Habeas corpus to compel relator’s immediate release from prison — Petition 
dismissed, when. 
(No. 97-2464 — Submitted June 24, 1998 — Decided July 29, 1998.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Warren County, No. CA97-08-086. 
 
In 1995, appellant, Donnell Raglin, was convicted of involuntary 
manslaughter with an accompanying firearm specification and was sentenced to a 
term of five to ten years in prison. 
 
In 1997, Raglin filed a petition in the Court of Appeals for Warren County 
for a writ of habeas corpus to compel his immediate release from prison.  Raglin 
claimed that his conviction was void because his trial court improperly amended 
his indictment from an original charge of murder to a charge of involuntary 
manslaughter. 
 
The court of appeals granted the Civ.R. 12(B)(6) motion of appellee, 
Raglin’s prison warden, and dismissed the petition. 
 
This cause is now before the court upon an appeal as of right. 
__________________ 
 
Donnell Raglin, pro se. 
 
Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Karen L. Killian, Assistant 
Attorney General, for appellee. 
__________________ 
 
Per Curiam.  We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals for the reasons 
stated in its opinion.  Raglin’s claim challenges the validity or sufficiency of his 
indictment, is nonjurisdictional in nature, and should have been raised in an appeal 
of his criminal conviction rather than in habeas corpus.  See State ex rel. Richard 
 
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v. Seidner (1996), 76 Ohio St.3d 149, 151, 666 N.E.2d 1134, 1136 (“Richard 
essentially challenged the validity of his amended indictment, a claim which is not 
cognizable in habeas corpus.”). 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.