In Re Irish

Petitioner, by this writ, seeks release from imprisonment for contempt for failing to pay accumulated instalments for the support and maintenance of his minor children ordered in a previous decree granting his wife a divorce, premised on his inability at the time of the instant contempt proceedings, to so pay.

The showing of ability rested on petitioner’s possession of an adjusted compensation certificate issued by the United States government, expressly exempted by section 618, Title 38, U. S. C. A., as amended July 3, 1926, 44 Stats, at Large, 827, from judicial process of compulsion, hence…