State Ex Rel. Carroll v. Sullivan

BARNS, J.:

This cause comes on before this Court upon the Return to a Writ of Habeas Corpus issued upon a Petition therefor reciting that petitioner had been illegally committed by the Chancellor for contempt because on the non-payment of alimony, in that:

“(a) The term of arrest or incarceration, as specified in said order, is vague, indefinite and uncertain in that it contains a provision that the relator, Robert James Carroll, be held by the respondent and imprisoned for a period of ‘thirty days, or until further order of this Court.’

“(b) An alleged violation of two orders of the Circuit…