Case Name: STATE ex rel v. PATTERSON
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923-01-01
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 220
Docket Number: No. 517
Parties: STATE ex rel v. PATTERSON
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 220–220

Head Matter:
No. 174
STATE ex rel v. PATTERSON
Ohio Court of Appeals, Montgomery County
No. 517,
January 1, 1923
Full Opinion, Dayton Daily Legal News, Jan. 24,1923
WRIT OF PROHIBITION — Not a substitute for habeas corpus .
Error to Common Pleas Court

Opinion:
BY THE COURT:
Epitomized Opinion
Action brought by David T. Jones, sheriff, against the defendant as one of the csmmon pleas judges of Montgomery county.
It is clearly settled that writs of prohibition should not be issued as a substitute for a writ of error; or where error affords a complete and adequate remedy, and that this extends to questions of jurisdiction, and the court against which the writ of prohibition is sought. Such a writ will not be issued prohibiting the court of common pleas from determining its own jurisdiction where jurisdiction of the subject matter has been conferred upon that court by the laws of the state, 98 OS. 164.
Jurisdiction is conferred upon the common pleas in habeas corpus cases, and its remedy for the wrong use of writ is therefore by prosecuting error, and not by writ of habeas corpus.
As the ease now Stands, petition in error affords an adequate remedy and the issuance of the writ of prohibition is vacated, and the petition dismissed.
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