Ex Parte Lowery

KEITH, Justice.

Our original jurisdiction has been invoked under the provisions of Vernon’s Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 1824a (Supp.1974—1975), after Relator was found in contempt of court for refusing to answer certain questions propounded to him in a hearing involving children mentioned in an earlier divorce decree. The only question presented by our record is that involving the jurisdiction of the trial court to hear the contempt action and to enter the order.1

Statement

On January 29, 1974, the Honorable Clyde E. Smith, Jr., Judge of the 88th Judicial District of Texas,2 entered a decree of…