Ex Parte Blackmon

EVANS, Justice.

Relator, Larry Julian Blackmon, filed this original petition for writ of habeas corpus, seeking review of an order holding him in contempt for failure to make child support payments. The order of commitment directed that relator should be confined in the county jail for a period of sixty days and until he should purge himself by paying his former wife, Patricia Louise Blackmon, the amount the court found relator to be in arrears, the sum of $1,000.00, and costs of court, including $200.00 attorney’s fees.

We sustain relator’s contention that he was denied due process in that the…