Case Name: James Bartlett and others v. The State of Ohio
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1871-12
Citations: 22 Ohio St. 205
Docket Number: 
Parties: James Bartlett and others v. The State of Ohio.
Judges: 
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 22
Pages: 205–205

Head Matter:
James Bartlett and others v. The State of Ohio.
Motion for the allowance of a writ of error.
Motion overruled, on thegx’ound that the application can be made to the Common Pleas.
John E. Hunter and G. H. Blackburn, for the motion.
T. G. Campbell and M. L. Buckwalter, contx-a.

Opinion:
By the Court.
This is an application for the allowance of a writ of error to the Police Court of Cincinnati. We refuse to allow the writ for the reason that the application can be made as well to the Court of Common Pleas. Were we to establish the px'actice that all such applications are to be made to this court, without first going to the Common Pleas, we should be utterly unable to dispose of the business of the court. Necessity, therefore, compels us to confine the hearing of such applications to exceptional cases, where the special circumstances render it necessax-y.
As the court, sua sponte, refused to consider the application, the points and citations of counsel, which related only to the questions in the case, are omitted*