State, in Interest of Hales

ELLETT, Justice:

This is an appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus. The record is sparse, but the following seem to be the facts:

The mother of Floyd Roger Hales is mentally incompetent, and when the child was ten days old, his father gave him to the Lujans, who are the great uncle and great aunt of the minor child.

In May, 1971, the juvenile court apparently entered an order depriving the parents permanently of the custody of the child and making him a ward of the juvenile court. I say “apparently” because the judge based her ruling upon such an order, although it was never placed in…