Corbitt v. Walters

WHITE, Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether or not the trial court erred in entering final judgment awarding custody of a six year old male child to its father as petitioner in habeas corpus. The petitioner, in previous judicial proceedings, had been awarded custody.

The appellants, respondents below, are the sister and brother-in-law of the petitioner. They asserted defensively that the child had been abandoned by the petitioner, who is in military service but now assigned to duty within the United States. The petitioner’s former wife, mother of the subject child, appeared…