Reynolds v. Lockhart

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ROY, District Judge.

Now before the Court is the fifth petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 we have received from Roy C. Reynolds, an inmate presently incarcerated in the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction. Mr. Reynolds first entered the custody of the Department following his conviction for first-degree rape and kidnapping by a Crittenden County Circuit Court jury on March 7, 1969. He was thereafter sentenced to ninety-nine years’ imprisonment on each charge, with the terms to be served consecutively. The file indicates that no…