Marshall v. Wilson

616 S.W.2d 932 (1981)

Bonita Dean MARSHALL, Relator,

v.

Honorable Floyd R. WILSON, Judge, Respondent.

No. C-190.

Supreme Court of Texas.

June 10, 1981.

Herbert H. Landau, Dallas, for relator.

Jim Ferguson, Cleburne, for respondent.

POPE, Justice.

Bonita Dean Marshall seeks a writ of mandamus directing the Judge of the 18th District Court of Johnson County to grant a writ of habeas corpus releasing her eight-year-old child, Carolynda, from the unlawful possession of William Pacheco, the child's father.

We conditionally grant the writ of mandamus as we have done on a number of occasions, and for the…