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

Ex parte KELLETT.
    (No. 3349.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Dec. 2, 1914.)
    Bail (§ 43) — Right to Admission to Bail.
    Where it appeared with, reasonable certainty that accused killed deceased, and that the evidence would raise no question of self-defense or of the lesser degrees of homicide, it was proper to refuse accused admission, to bail.
    [Ed. Note. — Por other cases, see Bail, Cent. Dig. §§ 153-164; • Dec. Dig-. § 43.]
    Appeal from Criminal District Court, Harris County; C. W. Robinson, Judge.
    Ex parte application by Jack Kellett for a writ of habeas corpus to procure his admission to bail. Prom an order denying bail, he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Kahn & Williams, of Houston, for appellant. C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
    
      
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   PRENDERGAST, P. J.

Relator has appealed from the order of the district judge denying him bail on a habeas corpus hearing. He has been indicted for murder. One ground of his application is based on his claim that confinement will endanger his life. The evidence is insufficient to show this. In fact, the relator’s attorneys practically, if not actually, conceded this when the case was submitted. We have carefully read and studied the evidence. We think it shows with reasonable certainty that appellant killed the deceased, and that no other did; that if he did, the offense is murder. We think no question of self-defense or any less grade of offense than murder is raised. We therefore, cannot disturb the judgment of the lower court refusing bail. We will not discuss the evidence. What little we have said about our conclusions from the evidence must not be used on any trial against appellant, and is not intended for such use or purpose.

The judgment denying bail is affirmed.