EX PARTE SMART

No. A-4050.

256 S.W.2d 398 (1953)

Ex parte SMART.

Supreme Court of Texas.

April 1, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon R. Wellborn and Rex Houston, Henderson, for relator.

No appearance for respondents.


GARWOOD, Justice.

Following a judgment of the District Court of Bowie County, holding him in contempt, relator, Ross Smart, was confined by the sheriff in the county jail until he should purge himself by paying part of a large number of defaulted obligations for support of his minor son pursuant to a previous decree of divorce, together with court costs and attorney's fees incident to the contempt proceedings. Contemporaneously with granting the writ of habeas...

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