Ex Parte Anderson

BARROW, Chief Justice.

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding wherein relator seeks release from an order of commitment because of his refusal to deliver to his former wife, Mary Estella Anderson, the sum of $105.00 each month, as her part of relator’s military retirement as ordered by the decree of divorce. The trial court found that relator was in arrears in the sum of $3,990.00 and ordered him committed to the Bexar County Jail until he purged himself of contempt by payment of this sum.

Relator urges that the order of contempt is void and his confinement and restraint is thus illegal…