COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                           NO.  73607
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
MARK SAXON                    :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    PROHIBITION
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 90009
                              :
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION                   :    JANUARY 29, 1998
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DENIED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           MARK SAXON, pro se
                              #321-061
                              Post Office Box 4501 ACI
                              The Allen Correctional Institution
                              Lima, Ohio 45802
For respondent    :           STEPHANIE TUBBS-JONES
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              DANIEL M. MARGOLIS, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
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PATRICIA A. BLACKMON,A.J.:
     Relator, Mark Saxon, seeks a writ of prohibition in an attempt
to vacate the sentence  of incarceration that was imposed in  the
underlying case of State v. Saxon, Cuyahoga County Court of Common
Pleas Case No.  CR-332309.  The  respondent, the Cuyahoga  County
Court of Common Pleas,  has filed a motion for summary  judgment,
which this court grants for the following reasons.
     In order for this court to issue a writ of prohibition,  the
relator must establish that: 1) the court or officer against whom
the writ is  sought is about to  exercise judicial power; 2)  the
exercise of such power is unauthorized by law; and 3) the denial of
the writ  will cause  injury to the  relator for  which no  other
adequate remedy exists in the  ordinary course of law.  State  ex
rel. Jones v. Garfield Hts. Mun. Court (1997), 77 Ohio St.3d 447.
In addition, absent a patent and unambiguous lack of jurisdiction,
a court having general subject-matter jurisdiction over a claim or
issue can determine its own jurisdiction, and a party challenging
the court's  jurisdiction  possesses an  adequate remedy  at  law
through an appeal. Stateex rel. Enyart v. O'Neill (1995), 71 Ohio
St.3d 655.
     Herein, the relator raises issues that should be raised upon
a direct appeal from the conviction as originally rendered in State
v. Saxon, Cuyahoga County  Common Pleas Case No. CR-332309.   The
relator clearly possesses an adequate remedy at law, which prevents
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this court  from issuing a  writ of prohibition.   State ex  rel.
Pressley v. Industrial Comm. (1967), 11 Ohio St.2d 141.
     Accordingly, we grant  the respondent's  motion for  summary
judgment.  Costs to relator.
     Writ denied.
JAMES M. PORTER, J., CONCURS
                                   PATRICIA A. BLACKMON
                                   ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE
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