Case ID: tex-crim_75/html/0105-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HARPER, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex Parte J. N. Burton.
    No. 3323.
    Decided October 28, 1914.
    Habeas Corpus—Murder—Bail.
    Where, upon habeas corpus for bail in a murder case, the evidence raised the issues of self-defense and imperfect self-defense, the relator was entitled to bail.
    Appeal from the District Court of Hemphill.
    Appeal from a habeas corpus proceeding denying hail in a murder case.
    The opinion states the case.
    
      J. F. Cunningham, for relator.
    
      C. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   HARPER, Judge.

—Appellant, under a complaint charging him with murder, .was remanded to jail without bond on habeas corpus hearing. The evidence would show that trouble existed because of differences growing out of the relationship of landlord and tenant, appellant being a tenant of deceased. The State’s evidence would support a verdict of murder upon express malice, therefore rendering the case non-bailable. But the defendant’s evidence raises the issues of self-defense and imperfect self-defense with such cogency as we think to require the court to submit those issues to the juri7, and a court can not say that a jury would not be justified in finding for the defendant on one or the other of those defenses, and under such circumstances we think the court erred - in refusing to grant appellant bail.

The judgment is reversed and bond fixed in tire sum of $7500.

Bail granted.