Case ID: sw2d_45/html/1018-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CALHOUN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte Sam J. TURNER, Appellant.
    No. 15150.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 27, 1932.
    Roy D. Jackson, of El Paso, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   CALHOUN, J.

Appellant is under indictment in the district court of El Paso county charged with the forgery and passing of a check' for the sum of $75.50 drawn on the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa FS Railway Company. It seems from the record that the hail in this case was originally fixed at $1,500, and on application to reduce said bail in this case the bail was reduced to $1,000; that, when the appellant filed his application for writ of habeas corpus, wherein it was ¿lleged that the amount of bail was excessive in this ease, he was' unable to furnish bond in the sum of a thousand dollars. The trial court, upon a hearing of the application, entered an order reducing the bond in the present ease from $1,000 to $500, and from this order appellant has perfected his appeal. We see no reason why thé bond should be further reduced, as the bail in this case as fixed by the trial judge is not excessive.

The judgment is affirmed.

PER CURIAM.

The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.