Bragg v. State

In 1987 petitioner Bragg filed in circuit court a pro se petition to proceed pursuant to Criminal Procedure Rule 37. The petition was denied, and he subsequently filed a timely notice of appeal and designation of record but did not contact the court reporter about preparing the transcript on appeal. In 1988, after the time for lodging the record here had elapsed, petitioner filed in this court a petition for writ of mandamus in which he alleged that the lower court had not taken timely action to prepare the record on appeal. In an apparent reaction to the filing of the mandamus petition, the…