Talley v. Womack

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.

The circumstances leading up to the habeas corpus trial are as follows: Mrs. Eleanor Elizabeth Murray Womack Talley, the appellant, and William Rufus Womack, were married on February 9, 1953, and later they adopted Loura Susan…