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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte PEARSON.
    (No. 6981.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 26, 1922.)
    Bail <S=»49 — Evidence of capital offense held sufficient to justify a refusal of bail.
    Under indictment for murder, evidence of a capital offense held sufficient to justify a refusal of bail.
    Appeal from Criminal District Court, Harris County; C. W. Robinson, Judge.
    Bonnie Pearson is held without bail under an indictment for murder, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Jas. H. Letts, of Houston, for appellant.
    R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, P. 3.

Under an indictment for murder, relator is held without bail and asks for a réview of the decision of the trial court.

From his confession, which was introduced in evidence, it appears that he and others planned to rob the deceased, and that in carrying the design into effect the deceased was killed by one of appellant’s confederates. The party had been conveyed to the scene of the crime in appellant’s automobile, and at the time the fatal shot was fired he was about 100 feet away, the engine of his car running, and in waiting to aid his cocon-spirators in making their escape.

There is other testimony to the effect that, while the deceased was in his sleeping room at his place of business, he was killed, and circumstances were developed corroborative of appellant’s confession.

We are not prepared to say that the evidence was not of sufficient cogency to support the conclusion reached by the trial judge to the effect that a capital offense had been committed, and that appellant acted therein .as a principal offender.

The judgment is therefore affirmed. 
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