Case Name: Ex parte KING
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1940-10-16
Citations: 143 S.W.2d 580
Docket Number: No. 7765
Parties: Ex parte KING.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 143
Pages: 580–581

Head Matter:
Ex parte KING.
No. 7765.
Supreme Court of Texas.
Oct. 16, 1940.
Millard L. ..Threet and Garvey Melugin, both of Archer City, for relator.

Opinion:
CRITZ, Justice.
This is an original habeas corpus proceeding instituted directly in this Court by Wayne King, as relator, to secure his release from alleged illegal restraint of his liberty.
The District Court of Archer County, Texas, granted Bennie King, the then wife of relator, a divorce from relator. The divorce decree contained a child support order against relator. Later Bennie King, the divorced wife, made complaint against relator for disobedience of such child support order. This complaint was sworn to before Bennie King's attorney acting as a notary public. The district court, on hearing, based on this complaint, adjudged relator in contempt, and committed him to jail. This Court ordered relator released on bail pending final determination of this cause. The decree of contempt entered in the district court was, and is, void because the complaint was sworn to before Mrs. King's attorney as notary public. Ex parte Scott, 133 Tex. 1, 123 S.W.2d 306, 126 S.W.2d 626.
Relator is finally discharged.