Ex Parte Andrews

EVANS, Justice.

Relator brings this original habeas corpus proceeding, contending that the judgment of contempt and commitment order are void because he is unable, through no fault of his own, to obey the court’s order.

The order of commitment dated October 6, 1977, finds relator to be in arrears of child support payments in the total sum of $900.00, adjudges his punishment for such contempt at confinement in the county jail for a period of one day and directs that he be further confined until he shall have purged himself of the contempt by paying the sum of $400.00, as child support payments…