Edmonson v. Ramsey
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court of F'orrest County. Hon. R. S. Hall, Judge. Petition for habeas corpus by N. K. Ramsey against A. iE. Haubison, sheriff of F'orrest County, Petitioner discharged from custody and the Sheriff granted an appeal.
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Appeal from Circuit Court of F'orrest County. Hon. R. S. Hall, Judge. Petition for habeas corpus by N. K. Ramsey against A. iE. Haubison, sheriff of F'orrest County, Petitioner discharged from custody and the Sheriff granted an appeal. The only question which can or does arise on this appeal is: Did the chancery court have the authority in law to require the appellee herein, N. K. Ramsey, who was the defendant in said suit, to execute a bond for the payment of the decree rendered against him for the support and maintenance of his wife and child, and whether upon his failure to execute, or…
1Opinion
*465On the Merits.
The sole question presented to us upon the merits of this controversy is whether or not that part of the decree of the chancery court committing Ramsey to the custody of the sheriff until he made the required bond for the pay.ment of.the alimony is void; or, to express it in different language, did the court have power to order this man into the custody of the sheriff until this bond was made? Section 1673, Code of 1906, section 1415', Hemingway’s Code, provides among other things that: “The court may, in its discretion, having regard to the circumstances of the parties and the…
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