Case ID: sw2d_251/html/0730-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORRISON, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte MARTINEZ.
    No. 26038.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 15, 1952.
    William C. McDonald, San Angelo, for appellant.
    George P. Blackburn, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   MORRISON, Judge.

Appellant, having been arrested for murder and the District Court having refused to set bail, sued out a writ of habeas corpus before the District Judge of the 119th Judicial District in order that he might be admitted to bail. At the hearing oí said writ, he was refused hail and remanded to custody. From that judgment he has appealed to this Court.

After a careful consideration of the record, it is our opinion that appellant is entitled to bail, and we have fixed the amount of 'his bail in the sum of $5,000. The judgment will be set aside, and the appellant will he admitted to bail and released from custody, upon the execution by him of a bond in the sum of $5,000, with good and sufficient sureties, conditioned as the law directs.

Ordered accordingly.