Pozzie v. Prather

Calhoun, Peesident :

This case, on appeal from a final judgment of the Circuit Court of Putnam County, involves a habeas corpus proceeding instituted in that court in January, 1966, by Thelma Pozzie, as petitioner, against Elliott Prather and Lynda Prather, husband and wife, as respondents, for the purpose of obtaining an adjudication of the right to the custody of Michael Dewayne Pozzie, an illegitimate child born on April 2, 1965, to the petitioner, who previously had been divorced from her husband.

In her habeas corpus petition, Thelma Pozzie alleges that she resides in Kanawha County; that…