COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 72807
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
DAVID L. WALTERS              :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    MANDAMUS
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 85782
                              :
STEPHANIE TUBBS-JONES         :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
                              :
     Respondent               :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION                   :    AUGUST 14, 1997
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DISMISSED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           DAVID L. WALTERS, pro se
                              #300-520
                              North Central Correctional Inst.
                              Post Office Box 1812
                              Marion, Ohio  43301
For respondent    :           STEPHANIE TUBBS-JONES
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              LISA REITZ WILLIAMSON, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
                               -2-
JAMES D. SWEENEY, C.J.:
     Relator, David L. Walters, seeks a writ of mandamus in order
to compel the respondent, Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, Cuyahoga  County
Prosecutor, to verify grand jury minutes and approve the indictment
as rendered in the underlying case of State v. Walters,  Cuyahoga
Common Pleas Case No. CR-313243.  The respondent has filed a motion
to dismiss.
     The relator, through his complaint for a writ of mandamus, has
failed to demonstrate that the respondent possesses a legal duty to
verify grand jury minutes, approve the indictment, or obtain  and
release  minutes of  the grand  jury.   In fact,  this court  has
repeatedly held that the respondent possesses no duty to  perform
the requested acts and that the relator possesses other  adequate
remedies at law.  State ex  rel. Smith v. Jones (Dec. 18,  1996),
Cuyahoga App. No. 70768. unreported; State ex rel. Malave v. Jones
(Oct. 27, 1994), Cuyahoga App. No. 66892, unreported.
     Accordingly, we grand  the respondent's  motion to  dismiss.
Costs to relator.
     Writ dismissed.
.