COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                           NO.  73186
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
JOHN WILLIAMS                 :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    PROCEDENDO
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO.  88582
                              :
JUDGE WILLIAM E. AURELIUS     :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION                   :    NOVEMBER 20, 1997
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DENIED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           JOHN WILLIAMS, pro se
                              #195-723
                              North Central Correctional Inst.
                              Post Office Box 1812
                              Marion, Ohio  43301-1812
For respondent    :           STEPHANIE TUBBS-JONES
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
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JAMES D. SWEENEY, C.J.:
     Relator, John Williams, seeks a writ of procedendo in order to
compel the respondent, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Judge
William E. Aurelius, to issue a ruling with regard to a  petition
for post-conviction relief that was filed in the underlying case of
State v. Williams, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Case No.
CR-214169. The respondent has filed a motion for summary judgment.
     A writ of  procedendo is an order  from a court of  superior
jurisdiction to a  court of inferior  jurisdiction to proceed  to
judgment. State ex rel. Davey v. Owen (1937), 133 Ohio St. 96.  A
writ of procedendo will issue where a trial court has refused  to
render a  judgment  or has  unnecessarily delayed  proceeding  to
judgment. State ex rel. Wallace v. Tyack (1984), 13 Ohio St.3d 4;
State ex rel. Doe v. Tracy (1988), 51 Ohio App.3d 198.
     Herein,  a review  of  the  trial court  docket  and  record
discloses that the relator filed his petition for post-conviction
relief on September 9, 1996.  Attached to the respondents's motion
for summary judgment is a copy of a journal entry, as journalized
on October 17, 1997, that denied the relator's petition for post-
conviction relief  and  further  rendered findings  of  fact  and
conclusions of law. The relator's request for a writ of procedendo
is moot.  State ex rel. Gantt v. Coleman (1983), 6 Ohio St.3d 5.
     Accordingly, we grant  the respondents's motion for  summary
judgement.  Costs to respondent.
     Writ denied.
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PATRICIA A. BLACKMON, J., CONCURS
.