Legal Opinion

In re Moore

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1976No. 76-606Published

1Per curiam

Following appellant’s escape, he was discharged from the rolls of the hospital where he had been temporarily committed. The Court of Appeals was correct, therefore, in dismissing appellant’s amended petition for a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground of mootness, because appellant was voluntarily absent from the hospital from which he sought release.*

Moreover, there is nothing in the record to support, appellant’s allegation of a claimed denial of effective assistance of counsel. In re Larkins (1976), 48 Ohio St. 2d 21.

Accordingly, the judgment of the Court of Appeals dismissing appellant’s…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. In re LarkinsOhio Supreme Court · 1976

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