In the Matter of Hutchinson

STONE, Judge.

In this habeas corpus proceeding in the Circuit Court of Phelps County, Missouri, petitioner Jay M. Hutchinson sought and was awarded the major custody (for eleven calendar months each year) of three minor children, namely, Dianne Cecile born December 13, 1951, Paul Basye born April 6, 1954, and Jennifer Elaine born September 27, 1956, of the marriage of petitioner and Bettie B. Hutchinson (now Wesley). Custody of those three children (as well as a fourth, David Carl born October 30, 1949, not involved in this proceeding) had been awarded to the mother in a divorce decree entered…