State Ex Rel. Harris v. Common Pleas Court, Division of Probate & Juvenile

A complaint for an alternative writ of prohibition and a writ of prohibition has been filed in this court invoking the original jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals.

A fifteen-year-old boy, Nicholas C. Harris, is alleged to have killed Russell Rilev Ratcliff in Ross County, Ohio. It is alleged in the complaint that the respondent, Kenneth Stevens, judge of the Juvenile Court of Ross County, would, unless restrained by a writ of prohibition, commit Nicholas C. Harris to the Lima State Hospital.

The offense occurred in Ross County. Under these circumstances the Juvenile Court of Boss County had…