Case ID: sw_140/html/0098-01.html
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Author: {"author": "HARPER, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte ROBERTSON.
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 11, 1911.)
    Bail . (§ 53) — Criminal Prosecutions — Amount — Reduction.
    In the absence of a statement of facts in the record, an application for reduction of the amount of bond of an accused upon the ground that he was sick and a longer confinement might prove fatal must be denied; the allegations of the application not being evidence.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Bail, Dec. Dig. §‘ 53.]
    Application by T. J. Robertson for a reduction in the amount of his bond.
    Application denied.
    Marsene Johnson, for appellant. C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
    
      
      For other cases see same topic and section NUMBER in Dec. Dig. & Am. Dig. Key No. Series & Rep’r Indexes-
    
   HARPER, J.

Relator presented an application to this court, praying for a reduction in the amount of his bond, alleging that he was sick, and from his confinement he had contracted disease, and longer confinement might prove fatal. The allegations in the petition are not evidence, and, there being no statement of facts in the record, the application is refused, and relator remanded. Ex parte Naill, 59 Tex. Cr. R. 140, 127 S. W. 1031.

DAVIDSON, P. J., absent.