Ex Parte Yates

SMITH, Justice.

Relator, Gordon L. Yates, applies here for a writ of habeas corpus from an order of commitment entered by the judge of the 153rd District Court of Tarrant County, Texas. The commitment was ordered pursuant to a judgment entered by the Court on September 18, 1964, adjudging Yates guilty of civil contempt for failure to comply with the Court’s judgment entered in a divorce suit on December 3, 1963. The Relator seeks release from the custody of the sheriff of Tarrant County, Texas, on the ground that the action of the judge in finding him guilty of civil contempt for failure to…