Case Name: Ex parte Womack
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1960-12-28
Citations: 171 Ohio St. 392
Docket Number: No. 36493
Parties: Ex parte Womack.
Judges: Weygandt, C. • J., Zimmerman, Taet, Matthias, Bell, Herbert and O’Neill, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 171
Pages: 392–393

Head Matter:
Ex parte Womack.
(No. 36493
Decided December 28, 1960.)
Mr. Thomas B. Womack, in propria persona.
Mr. Mark McElroy, attorney general, and Mr. Aubrey A. Wendt, for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Habeas corpus may not be employed as a substitute for the remedy of appeal or as a means for testing the constitutionality of a statute in favor of one who has been convicted, where the court wherein conviction was obtained had jurisdiction to determine the question of constitutionality. Yutze v. Copelan, Chief of Police, 109 Ohio St., 171; Ex parte Calhoun, 154 Ohio St., 81.
Petitioner remanded to custody.
Weygandt, C. • J., Zimmerman, Taet, Matthias, Bell, Herbert and O'Neill, JJ., concur.