Ex Parte Smart

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 corpus we ordered relator released on bail pending this decision.

The petition for the writ, sworn to by Rex Houston, Esq., attorney for relator, and…