Faris v. Faris

Wilma Paris filed a petition in the circuit court of De Kalb County for writ of habeas corpus to secure from her former husband, Harry Paris, their three-year-old daughter, Wendy Paris. Upon respondent’s failure to produce the child as ordered by the trial court, he was adjudged in contempt and ordered committed to the county jail pending compliance. Claiming violation of his constitutional rights, respondent has appealed directly to this court.

It appears that the parties were married in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1961, and later moved to De Kalb County, Illinois, where they resided with their two…