Title: Caudill v. Brigano

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

[Cite as Caudill v. Brigano, 100 Ohio St.3d 37, 2003-Ohio-4777.] 
 
 
CAUDILL, APPELLANT, v. BRIGANO, WARDEN, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as Caudill v. Brigano, 100 Ohio St.3d 37, 2003-Ohio-4777.] 
Writ of habeas corpus seeking relief from confinement — Petition dismissed 
when claim of insufficiency of evidence to support convictions raised — 
Court of appeals’ dismissal of petition affirmed. 
(No. 2003-0670 — Submitted August 26, 2003 — Decided September 24, 2003.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Warren County, No. CA2003-02-016. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶1} 
In 1997, the Hancock County Court of Common Pleas convicted 
appellant, Danny Caudill, of two counts of engaging in a pattern of corrupt 
activity, two counts of possession of drugs, one count of funding drug trafficking, 
and one count of funding marijuana trafficking, and sentenced him to prison and 
fined him.  On appeal, the Court of Appeals for Hancock County remanded for 
correction of a sentencing error and otherwise affirmed.  State v. Caudill (Dec. 2, 
1998), Hancock App. No. 05-97-35, 1998 WL 833729. 
{¶2} 
In February 2003, Caudill filed a petition in the Court of Appeals 
for Warren County for a writ of habeas corpus to compel appellee, Anthony 
Brigano, his prison warden, to release him from prison.  Caudill claimed that the 
state had failed to introduce sufficient evidence to support his convictions.  In 
March 2003, the court of appeals sua sponte dismissed Caudill’s petition because 
his claims “are not the proper subject of a habeas corpus action.” 
{¶3} 
We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.  “Habeas corpus 
will not issue to raise claims of insufficiency of evidence * * * .”  State ex rel. 
Bruggeman v. Leonard  (1999), 86 Ohio St.3d 298, 299, 714 N.E.2d 921; Cornell 
v. Schotten (1994), 69 Ohio St.3d 466, 467, 633 N.E.2d 1111.  Caudill should 
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have raised these claims in his appeal.  Ellis v. McMackin (1992), 65 Ohio St.3d 
161, 162, 602 N.E.2d 611. 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR and O’DONNELL, JJ., concur. 
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Danny Caudill, pro se. 
 
Jim Petro, Attorney General, and Mark J. Zemba, Assistant Attorney 
General, for appellee. 
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