State v. McCoy

This is an appeal on questions of law from an order of the Common Pleas Court of Scioto County, releasing from custody the petitioner in a habeas corpus proceeding. The case was submitted to the trial court upon an agreed statement of facts, which, briefly, are as follows:

The petitioner, William McCoy, was charged by affidavit in the Municipal Court of Portsmouth on June 11, 1952, with a violation of Section 630'7-20, General Code, upon the highways of Scioto county, but outside the city limits of Portsmouth. The petitioner objected to the jurisdiction of the Municipal Court over the subject…