Townsend v. York

IRWIN, Justice:

Petitioner has asked this Court to assume original jurisdiction and grant a writ of prohibition directing a Payne County Associate District Judge (respondent) to refrain from proceeding further in a ha-beas corpus proceeding concerning petitioner’s two children.

Petitioner was living and working in Rhode Island when, in August, he and his wife (Mrs. Townsend) became estranged. Upon being transferred to Stillwater, Oklahoma, by his employer, petitioner moved to El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma, on September 27 with his two minor children.

Thereafter, Mrs. Townsend, who still…