Ex Parte Henry Castro

This is a habeas corpus proceeding, in which Henry Castro applies for discharge from a judgment of the Ninety-fourth District Court punishing him for contempt.

The record shows that relator’s confinement is based upon a judgment in contempt for having remarried within a year after a decree of divorce granted him on the 17th of August, 1923, on the ground of cruel treatment. The trial judge placed a clause in the decree, reading as follows:

“It is further ordered that neither party be permitted to marry within a year from this date, except to each other.”

Henry Castro did marry within a year from…