Ex Parte Spencer

RAY, Justice.

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding brought pursuant to Art. 1824a, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, in which relator, Jerri Spencer, seeks release from the custody of the Sheriff of Bowie County, Texas. Contemporaneously with the granting of the writ of habeas corpus, we ordered relator released on bail pending determination of this proceeding.

Relator was apparently held in constructive contempt of the 202nd Judicial District Court on March 22, 1974, for violating a previous judgment of that court ordering relator not to take her children from either Bowie County,…