State ex rel. Winnick v. Gansheimer

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Because the petition is fatally defective, we affirm.

{¶ 2} On February 24, 2006, appellant, Horace Winnick, filed a petition in the Court of Appeals for Ashtabula County for a writ of habeas corpus to compel appellee, his prison warden, to release him from prison. Winnick claimed that he had served his sentence. Winnick included a computer-generated prison update sheet indicating that he had been convicted and sentenced for four separate criminal offenses, but he attached a sentencing entry covering…