Ex Parte White

STAKELY, Justice.

This is an original petition to this court for mandamus to compel D. C. Halstead, Judge of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit, to vacate an order, awarding the custody of a child pendente lite. The theory of the petition is that the court had no jurisdiction to make the order. Upon issuance of the rule nisi, Judge Halstead filed answer ■and the cause is submitted here on petition and answer.

On August 18, 1943, J. G. White, the father of Billy Ronald White, a boy aged nine, instituted habeas corpus proceedings .against Ida Mae White, his wife and moth■er of the child, in the…