Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Payne
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided January 15, 1980No. 8754Published
1Opinion of the Court
598 S.W.2d 312 (1980)
Ex parte Thomas Dale PAYNE.
Original Habeas Corpus Proceeding.
No. 8754.
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.
January 15, 1980.
Rehearing Denied March 26, 1980.
David J. Potter, Potter & Potter, Texarkana, for appellant.
Errol Friedman, Friedman & Hooper, Texarkana, for appellee.
RAY, Justice.
This is a habeas corpus proceeding. Relator, Thomas Dale Payne, seeks relief from commitment to the Bowie County Jail for contempt growing out of his failure to make child support payments.
On September 28, 1965, a divorce decree was entered dissolving the marriage of Thomas Dale Payne…
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