Application of Martin

TAYLOR, Chief Justice.

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus by which petitioner seeks release from custody of the sheriff of Blaine County, who holds him in the county jail by virtue of an order of the Honorable D. H. Sutphen, judge of the district court. The order was entered in contempt proceedings arising out of the failure of the petitioner to pay the sum of $115, for the support of his minor children, as required by order made, subsequent to the decree, in divorce proceedings brought against him by his former wife.

A few days before the action for divorce was commenced, the…