Ex Parte Bates

THOMAS, Justice.

A petition for writ of prohibition was presented to this court in the above stated cause to prevent the Hon. George Lewis Bailes from assuming jurisdiction to hear and determine a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, involving the custody of Frances Elizabeth Bates, a child, about two years of age.

On September 7, 1945, Juanita Lester Bates, the mother of said child, filed on the law side of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Ala., a petition addressed “to the Hon. Judges of the Circuit Court for the Tenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Alabama,” at Birmingham. This…