Maddox v. Barr

Cockrell. J.

This writ of error was allowed by the Judge of ihe Third Judicial Circuit to have reviewed his action in remanding a seven year old child to the custody of the mother on writ of .habeas corpus.

The father in his petition alleged under .oath in substance that on January 19th, 1903, a decree was rendered in the Circuit Court of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, divoicing the petitioner and his wife Leda Ray Maddox now Leda Ray Barr, and giving to the petitioner the custody, control and education of their child Eugene, as “will be more fully shown bv reference to a certified copy of said…