Ex parte Hough

BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

In this original proceeding in habeas corpus the petitioner charged he was being unlawfully restrained of his liberty by respondent Sheriff of Greene County. He alleged he had been charged with contempt in three cases in the Circuit Court of Greene County and was sentenced to three concurrent ninety-day sentences.

Among other things, petitioner contended his imprisonment under the sentences was *334illegal because the purported commitment failed to set forth the particular circumstances of the offense as required by § 476.-140, RSMo 1969.1

The purported commitment recites the…