COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 73874
STATE OF OHIO                  :
                               :     ACCELERATED DOCKET
     PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE        :
                               :       JOURNAL ENTRY
vs.                            :
                               :            AND
CARYN S. KING                  :
                               :          OPINION
     DEFENDANT-APPELLANT       :
                               :        PER CURIAM
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION:                   SEPTEMBER 10, 1998
CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING:       Criminal appeal from
                               Court of Common Pleas,
                               Case No. CR-338105.
JUDGMENT:                      DISMISSED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION:        ________________________________
APPEARANCES:
For Plaintiff-appellee:        Stephanie Tubbs Jones
                               Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                               William R. Caine
                               Assistant County Prosecutor
                               The Justice Center
                               1200 Ontario Street
                               Cleveland, Ohio 44113
For Defendant-appellant:       John J. Russo, Esq.
                               Polito & Russo
                               21270 Lorain Road
                               Fairview Park, Ohio 44126
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PER CURIAM:
     An accelerated appeal is authorized pursuant to App.R.  11.1
and Loc.R. 25. The purpose of an accelerated docket is to allow an
appellate  court  to render  a  brief  and  conclusory  decision.
Crawford v. Eastland  Shopping Mall Assn. (1983), 11 Ohio  App.3d
158; App.R. 11.1(E). For the reasons adduced below, we dismiss the
notice of appeal.
     In the case  at bar, defendant-appellant Ms. Caryn S.  King,
immediately prior to  the commencement of the scheduled trial  on
March 6, 1997, pled guilty to one count of attempted patient abuse
(R.C. 2903.34, 2923.02) involving a mentally retarded patient at a
care facility, as charged  in the amended indictment.  The  trial
court sentenced  defendant  on March  6,  1997, which  order  was
journalized on March 11, 1997, stating in pertinent part:
           ***It is therefore, ordered and adjudged  by
          the Court that said defendant, Caryn S. King,
          sentenced to Cuyahoga County jail for 6 month
          term;  pay costs  & $110.00  fine.   Sentence
          suspd; deft to serve 4 months inactive  prob;
          pay costs by 5/1/97, receipt to bailiff;  pay
          $100.00 prob sup fee.   Deft to never  accept
          employmentin any mentally retarded facility.
          (Italicization added.)
     On June  2, 1997, defendant filed  her motion to vacate  the
guilty plea.  The State filed a brief in opposition to the motion
on  June  20, 1997.    The  trial court,  without  conducting  an
evidentiary hearing on the motion, denied the motion on June  25,
1997. On July 23, 1997, appellant appealed from the trial court's
June 25,  1997 denial of her  post-sentence motion to vacate  the
guilty plea.  That notice of appeal was dismissed for the failure
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of appellant to file a praecipe in accordance with Loc.App.R.  4.
See Stat e v. King  (August 21, 1997),  Cuyahoga App. No.  72903,
unreported.  On September 9,  1997, the court costs were paid  in
full and inactive probation was terminated.
     Thereafter, appellant  filed a  second notice  of appeal  on
January 16,  1998, from the  denial of the  motion to vacate  her
guilty plea. It is this second notice of appeal which is the basis
for this  appeal.  There  have been no  requests seeking, and  no
orders granting, a delayed appeal from the motion ruling of  June
25, 1997, pursuant to App.R. 5, or a reconsideration/ reinstatement
of appellate case number 72903 pursuant to App.R. 26.   Appellant
has waived oral argument.
     The lone assignment of error provides:
          THE TRIAL  COURT  ABUSED  ITS  DISCRETION  IN
          DENYING DEFENDANT'S  MOTION TO VACATE  GUILTY
          PLEA FILED ON JUNE 2, 1997.
     This assignment is precluded from being discussed because this
appellate court lacks jurisdiction.  The notice of appeal filed on
January  16, 1998 in  appellate case number  73874 was not  filed
within thirty days of the order appealed from.  See App.R.  4(A).
Absent jurisdiction and compliance with App.R. 4(A), the notice of
appeal  must be dismissed.   McCann v.  Lakewood (1994), 95  Ohio
App.3d 226, 235.
     Appeal dismissed.
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     It is ordered that appellee recover of appellant its costs herein
taxed.
     A certified  copy of  this  entry shall  constitute the  mandate
pursuant to Rule 27 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure.
Exceptions.
                                   JOSEPH J. NAHRA, P.J.
                                   LEO M. SPELLACY, J.
                                   JAMES D. SWEENEY, J.
N.B. This entry is an announcement of the court's decision.  See App.R.
22(B), 22(D)  and  26(A);  Loc.App.R.  27.   This  decision  will  be
journalized and will become the judgment and order of the court pursuant
to App.R. 22(E) unless  a motion for reconsideration  with supporting
brief, per  App.R.  26(A),  is filed  within  ten  (10) days  of  the
announcement of the court's decision.  The time period for review by the
Supreme Court of Ohio shall begin to run upon the journalization of this
.