Ex parte Hoback

CATES, Judge.

This is an original proceeding filed here November 27, 1968. It is denominated “Petition to' Reinstate Appeal.”

I

September 20, 1966, a petty jury in the Circuit Court of Jackson County found Hoback guilty of voluntary manslaughter. For this he was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.

September 20, 1966, Hoback gave in the Circuit Court his notice of appeal. No transcript of the record was ever filed here.

On March 7, 1967, said appeal was affirmed without opinion.

Sometime in 1968, Hoback brought a Federal habeas corpus action in the United States District Court for the Middle…