Grinnell v. Bowen (Slip Opinion)

*410 {¶ 1} Appellant, Timothy Grinnell, appeals the judgment of the Seventh District Court of Appeals dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.

{¶ 2} Grinnell was convicted of two counts of aggravated murder and sentenced to prison for 20 years to life on each charge. See State v. Grinnell , 112 Ohio App.3d 124 , 678 N.E.2d 231 (10th Dist.1996). On January 29, 2018, he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus against appellee, Richard A. Bowen Jr., warden of the Ohio State Penitentiary, alleging that the trial court never journalized an entry of conviction in his case as…