Hancock v. Dupree

This case is here upon a writ of error to the judgment of the circuit court, Okeechobee County, wherein the circuit judge upon a return of a writ of habeas corpus sued out at the instance of the mother of minor children, awarded the care and custody of such children to the mother and her husband.

The transcript reveals the filing in the court of the county judge of a petition by the probation officer of the county of Okeechobee wherein it was represented that the said children (of the age of two years) were dependent children within the meaning of Chapter 6216, Laws of Florida, in that they…