State ex rel. Owens v. Campbell

Presented is a substantive proposition interwoven with a procedural question. The latter is the more compelling for the reason that the Supreme Court of the United States has written a prescription for the solution of the former in Ashe v. Swenson (1970), 397 U. S. 436, 25 L. Ed. 2d 469, 90 S. Ct. 1189. It remains for us to apply the law of that case to the instant record and to decide whether appellant’s choice of forum was correct. We find ihat appellant demonstrates a federal constitutional right for the enforcement of which Ohio affords him no remedy in the ordinary course of the law.

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