Case ID: sw_294/html/0587-02.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 EDMONDSON.
    (No. 10942.)
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    May 4, 1927.
    Bail <&wkey;53 — Bail fixed on habeas corpus Rearing will not be reduced by Criminal Appeals Court, where not shown to be unobtainable or excessive.
    Where bail fixed upon a habeas corpus hearing is not shown to be excessive, nor is it shown that appellant could not obtain the bail so fixed, it will not be reduced by the Court of Criminal Appeals.
    Appeal from District Court, San Saba County; J. H. McLean, Judge.
    Appeal from an order on a habeas corpus hearing on application for bail by W. W. Edmondson, fixing bail at $10,000.
    Affirmed.
    J. H. Baker, of San Saba, for appellant.
    Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., and Robt, M. Lyles, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State. '
   LATTIMORE, J.

Upon a habeas corpus hearing of an application for bail, appellant herein was granted bail by the trial court in the sum of $10,000. He has appealed from said order of the district court apparently upon the ground that the bail fixed is excessive in amount. .We are not prepared to say that the facts before the trial judge were such as to make it appear that the amount of bail fixed was grossly excessive. In the absence of some showing that appellant has been, unable to make the bail so fixed, or that his situation and finances are such as to render it improbable that he can make such bail,'or leading us to believe the bail required is excessive, we would not feel; justified in making any order reducing the bail. Ex parte McDaniel, 96 Tex. Cr. R. 539, 258 S. W. 1057; Ex parte Bice, 105 Tex. Cr. R. 484, 289 S. W. 43.

The judgment will be affirmed. 
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