Title: Messmore v. Hand

State: kansas

Issuer: Kansas Supreme Court

Document:

185 Kan. 774 (1959)
347 P.2d 402
ROBERT CLYDE MESSMORE, Appellant,
v.
TRACY A. HAND, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas, Appellee.
No. 41,627

Supreme Court of Kansas.
Opinion filed December 12, 1959.
Homer Davis, of Leavenworth, was on the briefs for the appellant.
J. Richard Foth, assistant attorney general, argued the cause, and John Anderson, Jr., attorney general, was with him on the briefs for the appellee.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
FATZER, J.:
In this habeas corpus proceeding the petitioner, Robert Clyde Messmore, seeks his release from confinement in the Kansas State Penitentiary. The district court denied the writ and petitioner has appealed.
A review of the record reveals that the petitioner has made no attempt to comply with Rule No. 5 of this court and we have repeatedly held in a long line of decisions that failure to comply *775 therewith, by setting forth in the appellant's abstract the specification of errors complained of, is fatal and precludes appellate review. (Dupont v. Lotus Oil Co., 168 Kan. 544, 213 P.2d 975, and cases therein cited; City of Independence v. Wendorff, 169 Kan. 14, 216 P.2d 820; Miller v. Rath, 173 Kan. 192, 244 P.2d 1213.) In Quick, Receiver, v. Purcell, 179 Kan. 319, 295 P.2d 626, it was said:
See, also, North American Finance Corporation v. Circle-B, Inc., 180 Kan. 34, 299 P.2d 576; Rice v. Hovey, 180 Kan. 38, 299 P.2d 45.
In the instant case the abstract contains neither a motion for a new trial, nor the notice of appeal and specification of errors are not set forth. In view of the foregoing, it is the judgment of this court that this appeal must be and it is hereby dismissed.
It is so ordered.