State ex rel. Wright v. Upchurch

This is a habeas corpus proceeding instituted by Willie Wright as the relator against Clayton Upchurch, Sheriff of Fentress County, who was holding the relator in jail pursuant to an order of the Judge of the Circuit Court of that County.

The Circuit Court in the cause of Hattie Wright v. Willie Wright committed Willie Wright to jail for failure to pay an alimony award to his wife. The order committing the appellant to jail among other things said:

£<on the petition for contempt filed by the plaintiff, Hattie Wright, and answer by defendant and an oral and documentary evidence offered in open…