Opinion
No. 92-1603
Submitted January 19, 1993
Decided February 24, 1993
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Allen County, No. 1-92-49.
Appellant, Emory B. Dotson, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Court of Appeals for Allen County, claiming he was convicted of unspecified criminal charges and sentenced to a term of eleven to forty years' imprisonment in violation of his constitutional rights to a speedy trial and the effective assistance of counsel. The court of appeals held that both claims were nonjurisdictional and therefore not cognizable in habeas corpus, and dismissed the petition.
The cause is before the court upon an appeal as of right.
Emory B. Dotson, pro se.
We affirm the decision of the court of appeals.
In Mack v. Maxwell (1963), 174 Ohio St. 275, 22 O.O.2d 335, 189 N.E.2d 156, we held that a claimed denial of the constitutional right of a speedy trial could not be brought in habeas corpus after the accused had pled guilty to or been convicted of the crime charged. In McConnaughy v. Alvis (1956), 165 Ohio St. 102, 59 O.O. 103, 133 N.E.2d 133, we held that ineffective assistance of trial counsel is a nonjurisdictional claim that must be raised by appeal. Therefore, the court of appeals correctly dismissed the petition in this case, and its judgment is affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
MOYER, C.J., A.W. SWEENEY, DOUGLAS, WRIGHT, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY and PFEIFER, JJ., concur.