Ex Parte Carpenter

COULSON, Justice.

Relator, Dewey Wayne Carpenter, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus seeking review of an order of the 311th District Court of Harris County holding him in con tempt for failing to comply with certain provisions of a divorce decree entered by that court. We find that one of the provisions relator was held in contempt of court for disobeying is vague and indefinite. Incarceration based on disobedience of such a provision is illegal, and, since but a single penalty was assessed against relator for his disobedience of the several provisions of the court’s decree, the…