IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA

ATLANTA DIVISION

MICHAEL HAROLD CHAPEL )

GDC 845840 )

) PRISONER HABEAS CORPUS

Petitioner ) 28 U.S.C. § 2254

)

v. )

)

HUGH SMITH, Warden ) CIVIL ACTION NO.

) 1: 03-CV-2655-CAP

Georgia State Prison )

)

Respondent )

NOTICE TO APPEAL

Notice is hereby given that Michael H. Chapel, Petitioner in the above case, hereby appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the 11^th Circuit from the final judgment entered in this action on the 16^th day of March 2004.

I, Michael Harold Chapel, Petitioner do declare under penalty of perjury that the forgoing is true and correct.

Executed this 9^th Day of April, 2004

Michael H. Chapel, Pro se

845840

Wayne State Prison

P.O. Box 219

Odum, Georgia 31555

Respectively submitted this 9^th Day of April, 2004