Ex Parte Sutherland

CORNELIUS, Justice.

Relator Vernon Douglas Sutherland has applied for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for release from an order of confinement for contempt issued against him by the judge of the Sixth Judicial District Court of Fannin County, Texas. The judgment of contempt resulted from relator’s refusal to comply with a previous order of the court entered in the divorce action between relator and his former wife. That order required the relator to pay into the registry of the court for delivery to the former wife, of all payments to be received by relator after the divorce as “retainer pay” by…