Case ID: sw2d_389/html/0466-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "WOODLEY, Judge. MORRISON, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte Samuel SMITH, Jr.
    No. 38062.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 24, 1965.
    Rehearing Denied April 28, 1965.
    H. R. Rolston, Lufkin, for appellant.
    Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State,
   WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant, charged with murder with malice of his six year old daughter, being denied bail after indictment, sought relief by habeas corpus and was granted bail in the sum of $15,000.00.

Effort to make bail in such amount was unsuccessful and appellant again sought by habeas corpus a reduction in the amount of bail set.

This is an appeal from the order of the district judge denying the application for reduction of bail.

Reduction is sought upon the ground that the state relies upon the incompetent or unreliable testimony of a seven year old daughter of appellant to prove that appellant killed the deceased.

In the absence of any testimony of a defensive nature, and no mitigating circumstances being shown, we find no abuse of discretion on the part of the trial judge in refusing to reduce bail.

The judgment is affirmed.

ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

MORRISON, Judge.

Appellant has attached to his motion for rehearing a supplemental transcript in a case against his wife which indicates that her bond was set in the sum of $7,500 and asks that his bond be reduced to the same sum. We need not determine whether or not such instrument is properly before us for consideration because the statement of facts on appellant’s application for a reduction of bail reflects that appellant struck the last blows and the trial court was authorized to set appellant’s bond accordingly.

Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.