TOWNSEND v. LUCAS

No. 84-4146.

745 F.2d 933 (1984)

Frank TOWNSEND, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. Eddie LUCAS, Warden, Mississippi State Penitentiary and Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Attorney General, State of Mississippi, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Townsend, Jr., pro se.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., Larry M. Wilson, William S. Boyd, III, W.O. Dillard, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for respondents-appellees.

Before WILLIAMS, JOLLY, and HILL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from the denial of a habeas corpus petition. We do not reach the merits, but dismiss the appeal for failure to comply with Rule 58, Fed.R.Civ.P., and lack of a timely notice of appeal under Rule 4(a), Fed.R.App.P.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Frank Townsend, Jr., having been convicted of kidnapping and rape, is serving two concurrent thirty-year imprisonment terms at Parchman, Mississippi. The Mississippi Supreme Court...

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