State ex rel. Hampton v. McElroy

HERGET, Judge.

Relatrix, Helen Hampton, instituted ha-beas corpus proceedings against respondents, Warner and Blanche McElroy, to obtain the care and custody of her child eleven years of age at the time the case was tried in the Court below. The Trial Court rejected the demands of Relatrix and awarded the permanent care and custody of the minor child to Respondents. The case was tried in the Court below on February 8, 1960 by Honorable Woodrow W. Overton and on November 9, 1960 Judge Overton handed down written reasons for judgment awarding the custody of the child, Melvina Hampton, to…