CREEK v. STONE

No. 20563.

379 F.2d 106 (1967)

Enoch CREEK, Jr., Appellant, v. William J. STONE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Order Filed February 23, 1967.

Opinion Filed May 1, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Brian Michael Olmstead, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel for District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Charles T. Duncan, Corp. Counsel Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel at the time of argument, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the pleadings, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, McGOWAN and LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The District Court denied habeas corpus relief to appellant, a seventeen year old juvenile, on his allegation that he was unlawfully confined in the District of Columbia Receiving Home for Children. He was permitted to appeal in forma pauperis and the record was docketed in this court on November 10, 1966. But when appellant's attorney took no further action to prosecute the appeal, even after this default was called to his attention by our Clerk, we entered...

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