Case Name: The State, ex rel. Drexel, Appellant, v. Alvis, Warden, Appellee
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1950-03-15
Citations: 153 Ohio St. 244
Docket Number: No. 31909
Parties: The State, ex rel. Drexel, Appellant, v. Alvis, Warden, Appellee.
Judges: Weygandt, C. J., Matthias, Hart, Zimmerman, Stewart, Turner and Taet, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 153
Pages: 244–246

Head Matter:
The State, ex rel. Drexel, Appellant, v. Alvis, Warden, Appellee.
(No. 31909
Decided March 15, 1950.)
Miss Ceoile J. Shapiro, for appellant.
Mr. Herbert S. Duffy, attorney general, and Mr. Alan E. ScMuarswalder, for appellee.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The judgment of the Court of Appeals is affirmed.
The petitioner is not unlawfully restrained, of his liberty by the sentence imposed on September 17, 1946, which commitment is not challenged in this proceeding. He is therefore in the lawful custody of the warden.
The sentence of October 23, 1946, may be voidable but it may not be attacked by habeas corpus as a substitute for appeal. Ex parte Shaw, 7 Ohio St., 81, 70 Am. Dec., 55; Ex parte Hagan, 25 Ohio St., 426; In re Allen, 91 Ohio St., 315, 110 N. E., 535.
The habitual criminal act is constitutional. Blackburn v. State, 50 Ohio St., 428, 36 N. E., 18; McDonald v. Massachusetts, 180 U. S., 311, 45 L. Ed., 542, 21 S. Ct., 389, affirming McDonald v. Commonwealth, 173 Mass., 322, 53 N. E., 574, 73 Am. St. Rep., 293.
Judgment affirmed.
Weygandt, C. J., Matthias, Hart, Zimmerman, Stewart, Turner and Taet, JJ., concur.