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BROOKHART v. JANIS, DIR

No. 657.

7 Ohio Misc. 77 (1966)

BROOKHART v. JANIS, DIR.

United States Supreme Court.

Decided April 18, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Gerald A. Messerman and Mr. Lawrence Herman, for petitioner.

Mr. Leo J. Conway, assistant attorney general, and Mr. William B. Saxbe, attorney general, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner, James Brookhart, while serving the first of three consecutive sentences of from one to 20 years imposed by an Ohio Court of Common Pleas upon convictions of forgery and uttering forged instruments,1 brought this action for habeas corpus in the Supreme Court of Ohio. There is no question raised about that court's jurisdiction...

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