Ex parte Swearingen

COULSON, Justice.

This is an original proceeding for habeas corpus instituted by William Richard Swearingen, the relator, who contends that he was illegally deprived of his liberty by an order holding him in contempt of court for failure to make child support payments. Relator raises two points of error. Relator primarily raises the question of whether an order of contempt for failure to make child support payments can validly be issued during the time in which an appeal is pending from the judgment of divorce which ordered such payments to be made. Relator further contends that the trial…