Payne v. Jeffreys

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition for a writ.of habeas corpus.

{¶ 2} In July 2005, appellant, inmate Sir Lawrence E. Payne, filed a petition in the Court of Appeals for Marion County for a writ of habeas corpus to compel appellee, his warden, Rob Jeffreys, to release him from prison. Payne claimed that he was entitled to the writ because his indictment violated R.C. 2939.20 and thereby rendered the indictment “of no legal force.”

Sir Lawrence E. Payne, pro se. Jim Petro, Attorney General, and Diane Mallory, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

{¶ 3} On September…