COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 73912
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
NEBRASKA HOWARD               :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    MANDAMUS
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 92695
                              :
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION                   :    MARCH 26, 1998
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DENIED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           NEBRASKA HOWARD, pro se
                              #143-058
                              Chillicothe Correctional Inst.
                              Post Office Box 5500
                              Chillicothe, Ohio  45601
For respondent    :           STEPHANIE TUBBS-JONES
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              L. CHRISTOPHER FREY, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
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PATRICIA A. BLACKMON,A.J.:
     Relator, Nebraska Howard, seeks a writ of mandamus in order to
compel the respondent, the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas,
to issue findings of fact and conclusions of law with regard to a
petition for post-conviction relief that was filed and denied  in
the underlying case of State v. Nebraska, Cuyahoga County  Common
Pleas Case No. CR-37185.   The respondent has filed a motion  for
summary judgment, which this court grants for the following reason.
     Attached to the motion for summary judgment is a copy of the
respondent's    findings of  fact  and  conclusions of  law    as
journalized on February 6, 1998.  Thus, the relator's request for
a writ of 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.
     Accordingly, the respondent's motion for summary judgment is
granted.  Costs to respondent.
     Writ denied.
JAMES M. PORTER, J., CONCURS
                                   PATRICIA A. BLACKMON
                                   ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE
.