COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 79038
ALEXANDER HALL,               :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
          Relator             :    HABEAS CORPUS
                              :
     -vs-                     :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
                              :
TONI R. BROOKS, WARDEN, ET    :    (Motion No. 24348)
AL.,                          :
                              :
          Respondents         :
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION:       FEBRUARY 14, 2001
JUDGMENT:                     DISMISSED.
APPEARANCES:
For Relator:                  Alexander Hall, Pro Se
                              Richland Correctional Institution
                              No. 369-550
                              1001 Olivesburg Road
                              Mansfield, Ohio 44901
For Respondents:              Betty D. Montgomery, Esq.
                              Ohio Attorney General
                              BY: K.E. Carter, Esq.
                              Assistant Attorney General
                              Corrections Litigation Section
                              1600 Carew Tower
                              441 Vine Street
                              Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
                               -2-
MICHAEL J. CORRIGAN, J.:
     Relator, Alexander Hall, has filed an  Application Requesting
for a Writ of Habeas Corpus  seeking release from prison vis-a-vis
habeas corpus. The respondent, Toni Brooks, warden of the Richland
Correctional Institution, has filed a motion to dismiss.
     We grant the respondent's motion to dismiss since this court
lacks  jurisdiction over  the relator's  claim.   The relator  is
incarcerated at the Richland Correctional Institution in Mansfield,
Ohio, and is  not in the custody  of any legal authority  located
within Cuyahoga County.   See R.C.  2725.03; Bridges v.  McMackin
(1989), 44 Ohio St.3d 135; State ex rel. Dixon v. Gold (1991), 76
Ohio App.3d 518.  In addition, the relator possesses an  adequate
remedy  at  law  to challenge  his  conviction  and  sentence  of
incarceration through a direct appeal.  State ex rel. Jackson  v.
McFaul(1995), 73 Ohio St.3d 185; Walker v. Maxwell (1965), 1 Ohio
St.2d 136.
     Accordingly, we grant  the respondent's  motion to  dismiss.
Clerk is ordered to serve notice of this judgment to all parties as
provided in Civ.R. 58(B).  Costs to relator.
     Complaint dismissed.
DYKE, P.J., and                    ______________________________
                                        MICHAEL J. CORRIGAN
BLACKMON, J., CONCUR.                          JUDGE
 
 
 
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