Knight v. Sager

WRIGHT, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant, Samuel Earl Knight, was incarcerated in the Monroe County jail on October 28, 1978, for failure to make support payments to his ex-wife. He filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a motion to proceed in forma pauperis along with a supporting affidavit of poverty on March 21, 1979. Without evidentiary hearing the trial court granted appellant’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis but denied the petition for writ of habeas corpus.

In appellant’s affidavit of poverty, he swore that he…