COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                           NO.  73561
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
ANTHONY WASHINGTON            :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    MANDAMUS
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 90704
                              :
JUDGE S. STRICKLAND SAFFOLD   :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION                   :    JANUARY 29, 1998
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DISMISSED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           ANTHONY WASHINGTON, pro se
                              #342-122
                              68518 Bannock Road S.R. 331
                              St. Clairsville, Ohio  43950
For respondent    :           STEPHANIE TUBBS-JONES
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              ARTHUR A. ELKINS, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
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PATRICIA A. BLACKMON, A.J.:
     Relator, Anthony Washington, seeks a writ of mandamus in order
to compel  the respondent, Judge  Shirley Strickland Saffold,  to
grant additional pre-conviction jail time credit in the underlying
case of State v.  Washington, Cuyahoga Common Pleas Case No.  CR-
311452.  The respondent has filed a motion to dismiss, which this
court grants for the following reasons.
     A review of the journal entry, as attached to the respondent's
motion to dismiss, demonstrates that the relator's request for jail
time credit was granted by the respondent on December 4, 1997, and
that the relator was credited with the amount of sixty-nine  (69)
days.  The respondent has fulfilled her duty to grant the relator
credit for any pre-conviction incarceration, and thus the relator's
request for  mandamus is moot.   State ex  rel. Gantt v.  Coleman
(1983), 6 Ohio St.3d 5; State ex rel. Jerningham v. Cuyahoga County
Court of Common Pleas (1996), 74 Ohio St.3d 278.  In addition, any
further dispute concerning the amount of jail time credit must be
considered through a direct  appeal.  Mandamus will not issue  to
correct the  amount of jail time  credit granted to the  relator.
State ex rel. Spates v.  Judge James J. Sweeney (Apr. 19,  1997),
Cuyahoga App. No. 71986, unreported; State ex rel. Ney v. Niehaus
(1987), 33 Ohio St.3d 118.
     Accordingly, we grant  the respondent's  motion to  dismiss.
Costs to relator.
     Writ dismissed.
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JAMES M. PORTER, J., CONCURS
.