Mississippi Supreme Court March 14, 1932, No. 29887. (Robbins v. Waldrop)

Anderson, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

■Appellant filed his petition before the chancellor of

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the chancery court district, in which Marion county is situated, against appellee, sheriff of that county, in whose custody he was being detained under a judgment of contempt of the chancery court of said county, for a writ of habeas corpus, by which he sought to be released from the