Case Name: The State ex rel. Cotton, Appellant, v. Ghee, Appellee
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1998-07-29
Citations: 82 Ohio St. 3d 404
Docket Number: No. 98-448
Parties: The State ex rel. Cotton, Appellant, v. Ghee, Appellee.
Judges: Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer, Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 82
Pages: 404–405

Head Matter:
The State ex rel. Cotton, Appellant, v. Ghee, Appellee.
[Cite as State ex rel. Cotton v. Ghee (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 404.]
(No. 98-448
Submitted June 24, 1998
Decided July 29, 1998.)
Milton Cotton, pro se.
Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Marci L. Cannon, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals. Insofar as Cotton's December 1997 filing may be construed as a successive habeas corpus petition, res judicata precluded its filing. State ex rel. Brantley v. Ghee (1997), 80 Ohio St.3d 287, 288, 685 N.E.2d 1243, 1244. And even if the court of appeals should not have treated Cotton's December 1997 filing as a second habeas corpus petition, he had an adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law by appealing the court of appeals' November 1997 dismissal of his initial petition. Cotton's postjudgment filings did not extend the time for him to perfect an appeal from the November 1997 judgment. See, e.g., Key v. Mitchell (1998), 81 Ohio St.3d 89, 90-91, 689 N.E.2d 548, 549.
Judgment affirmed.
Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer, Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.