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22 Ohio St. (N.S.) 205

Bartlett v. State

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1871

Ohio Supreme Court · decided 1871-12-15

<p>Motion for the allowance of a writ of error.</p> <p>Motion overruled, on thegx’ound that the application can be made to the Common Pleas.</p>

Decided 1871-12-15

By the Court.

¶1This is an application for the allowance of a writ of error to the Police Court of Cincinnati. We refuse to allow the writ for the reason that the application can be made as well to the Court of Common Pleas. Were we to establish the px’actice that all such applications are to be made to this court, without first going to the Common Pleas, we should be utterly unable to dispose of the business of the court. Necessity, therefore, compels us to confine the hearing of such applications to exceptional cases, where the special circumstances render it necessax-y.

¶2As the court, sua sponte, refused to consider the application, the points and citations of counsel, which related only to the questions in the case, are omitted*

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