Carlton v. Herndon

Pofeenbarger, Judge :

The petitioner, a husband and parent, seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent the enforcement of a judgment rendered against him, in. a non-support proceeding, by the Circuit Court of Mercer County, on an appeal from the judgment of a justice. He proceeds upon the theory of lack of power and jurisdiction in the court which rendered the judgment, to héar and determine the accusation of non-support made against him, because the statute under which the proceeding-*220was instituted, was repealed before the judgment was rendered. •

The proceeding was commenced before a justice of…