COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                            NO. 74750
STATE OF OHIO, ex rel.        :
JUDSON DALTON                 :
                              :    PETITION FOR WRIT OF
     Relator                  :    MANDAMUS
                              :
     vs.                      :    MOTION NO. 97510
                              :
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS         :    JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO         :
                              :
     Respondent               :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
OF DECISION                   :    AUGUST 20, 1998
JUDGMENT                      :    WRIT DISMISSED.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :
APPEARANCES:
For relator       :           JUDSON DALTON, pro se
                              #143-493
                              Chillicothe Correctional Inst.
                              Post Office Box 5500
                              Chillicothe, Ohio  45601
For respondent    :           STEPHANIE TUBBS-JONES
                              Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
                              LISA REITZ WILLIAMSON, Assistant
                              Justice Center, Courts Tower
                              1200 Ontario Street
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44113
                               -2-
PATRICIA A. BLACKMON,A.J.:
     Relator, Judson Dalton, seeks an order from this Court  that
requires the respondent, the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas,
to render  a ruling  with regard to  a motion  for production  of
documents  as filed in  the underlying case  of State v.  Dalton,
Cuyahoga  County Court of  Common Pleas Case  No. CR-20018.   The
respondent has filed a motion to dismiss, which we grant for  the
following reason.
     Attached to the respondent's motion to dismiss is a copy of a
judgment entry, as journalized on July 21, 1998, which demonstrates
that the relator's  motion for production  of documents has  been
granted.   As a  result, the relator's  complaint 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 to dismiss is  granted.
Costs to respondent.
JAMES M. PORTER, J., CONCURS
.