The appellant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the County Court of Jones County, Mississippi, against the appellee and Mrs. Bolivar Ross, in which she alleged that the defendants illegally withheld the custody of Loura Susan Womack, a three-year old girl. The writ was duly served, the issue joined, and the case heard by the county judge on May 24, 1963.
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