Case ID: sw_279/html/0472-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte HOGAN.
    (No. 10016.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 20, 1926.)
    Bail <&wkey;49 — Proof held insufficient to support denial of bail.
    On habeas corpus proceedings," proof that accused was present and engaged in affray, and that he was one of parties in ear which transported body of deceased,.if he was then dead, from- place of affray to place where body was found next day, was not sufficient to support denial of bail.
    Appeal from District Court, Washington County; J. B. Price, Judge.
    Habeas corpus proceeding by Willie Hogan to be admitted to bail. From a judgment denying bail, he appeals.
    Judgment reversed, and bail granted.
    John M. Mathis, of Houston, and B. F. Teague, of Brenham, for appellant.
    Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty.,"of Austin, and Nat Gentry, Jr., Asst. State’s Atty., of Tyler, for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

From a judgment denying bail on habeas corpus hearing before the district court of Washington county, appeal is taken.

The facts in this case are identical with those reviewed by us in Ex parte Gaines Green (Tex. Cr. App.) 279 S. W. 471, opinion this day handed down. The -only facts shown in testimony as to this appellant are that he was present and participating in whatever assault may have been made upon deceased on the night of the alleged homicide. It is not shown that he had a weapon, or that he struck deceased with anything which might have in any way contributed to or caused his death. The fact that he was present and engaged in the affray on that night, and that he was one of the parties in the car which transported the body of deceased, if he was then dead, from the place where the difficulty occurred to the place where the body of deceased was found the next day, seem'to be the principal incriminating circumstances against this appellant.

For the reason that we do not believe the proof evident, nor that same would lead the dispassionate mind to conclude that, upon a fair trial on the facts, the appellant would likely be capitally convicted, the judgment refusing bail is reversed, and bail granted in the suin of $4,000. 
      <&wkey;>For other cases see same topic and KEY-N UMBER in ail Key-Numbered Digests and Indexes