Ex parte Voltz

Voltz made affidavit that he was illegally restrained Qf his liberty in the jail of Ripley county by George W. Russ, the sheriff of that county. A writ of habeas corpus having issued, the sheriff returned that he held the petitioner in custody by virtue of the following facts: that in a proceeding against him for the support of an illegitimate child, in *238the name of the State, on the relation of Louisa Billman, the mother, in the Ripley Circuit Court, the petitioner had been adjudged the father of the child, and ordered to pay four hundred dollars for its support, and costs of the suit, and…