Ex Parte Prickett

By this original habeas corpus proceeding, relator, Joe Douglas Prickett, whom we have enlarged on bond pending final decision, sought release from the custody of the sheriff of Cherokee County, who was confining him pursuant to a commitment of the District Court of said county for relator’s failure to deliver to his divorced wife (or to pay her the value of) certain stock certificates representing forty-odd shares of Humble Oil & Refining Company stock, which the divorce decree had admittedly awarded her in the division of the community estate, although referring to the stock only by the…