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 of the CourtSykes, J.
The appellee, M K. Ramsey, presented a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the circuit judge of the Twelfth judicial district. In this petition he claims that he is being illegally deprived of his liberty by A. E. Harbison, sheriff of Forrest county, and was by the sheriff incarcerated in the county jail; that a person styling herself Mrs. Carrie Hartziog Ramsey lately instituted a proceeding for a divorce in the chancery court of F'orrest county against the petitioner,' averring *460among other things in her bill of complaint that tho relator was her husband and that she was entitled to a…
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