Case Name: Robert A. HIGGS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, et al., Respondents
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1992-07-24
Citations: 601 So. 2d 319
Docket Number: No. 92-570
Parties: Robert A. HIGGS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, et al., Respondents.
Judges: GOSHORN, C.J. and GRIFFIN, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 601
Pages: 319–319

Head Matter:
Robert A. HIGGS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, et al., Respondents.
No. 92-570.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
July 24, 1992.
Robert A. Higgs, pro se.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and David S. Morgan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for respondents.

Opinion:
COBB, Judge.
In this habeas corpus proceeding we appointed the trial judge as commissioner to determine whether under the mailbox rule petitioner timely appealed an order summarily denying his 3.850 motion for post-conviction relief. See Higgs v. State, 599 So.2d 274 (Fla. 5th DCA 1992). The trial court found that petitioner's 3.850 motion was denied August 1, 1990, and his timely motion for rehearing was denied August 20, 1990. The court further found' that petitioner's notice of appeal was postmarked September 19, 1990 and filed in the clerk's office September 26, 1990. Applying the mailbox rule, the recorded date on the envelope indicates that petitioner timely placed the notice of appeal in the hands of the prison officials for mailing within the applicable thirty day period. See Fla. R.Crim.P. 3.850. Based on these findings, we treat the instant petition as a petition for writ of mandamus and direct the circuit court clerk of the fifth judicial circuit to transmit to this court the record in the 3.850 appeal as required by Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.140(g).
PETITION GRANTED.
GOSHORN, C.J. and GRIFFIN, J., concur.
. See Haag v. State, 591 So.2d 614 (Fla.1992).