Case ID: tex-crim_170/html/0315-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "WOODLEY, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex Parte Clinton Leon Shaw
    Nos. 32,848 and 32,849.
    December 7, 1960
    
      James J. Shown, Houston, for relator.
    
      Dan Walton, District Attorney, Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., 
      
      Erwin G. Ernst, Assistants District Attorney, Houston, and Leon Douglas, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.
   WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant stands convicted upon his plea of guilty in 10 cases, in each of which he has been sentenced to serve not less than 2 years nor more than 7 years in the penitentiary. He gave notice of appeal and bond was set at $5,000.00 in each case.

Appellant also stands convicted upon his plea of guilty in another case, in another court, in which he has appealed from a 7-year sentence and his appeal bond was set at $10,000.00.

The sentences were not cumulated.

Appellant sought by habeas corpus applications to have the amount of his bonds reduced. After hearing, District Judge Sam Davis ordered each of the appeal bonds reduced to $2,500.00.

The appeal is from Judge Davis’ order.

In the absence of a showing that an effort has been made to furnish bail in the amount fixed following the habeas corpus hearing, we must decline to entertain the complaint that the $2,500.00 bonds are excessive. Ex parte Swaim, 168 Tex. Cr. Rep. 391, 328 S.W. 2d 299, and cases cited.

The judgments are affirmed.