Case ID: sw_200/html/1094-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte RUSSELL.
    (No. 4901.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 30, 1918.)
    Appeal from District Court, El Paso County; W. D. Howe, Judge.
    Habeas corpus on behalf of W. G. Russell to obtain bail. Bail was refused, and relator remanded to custody, and he appeals.
    Reversed, and bail granted.
    Hudspeth & Harper and Loa, McGrady & Thomasson, all of El Paso, and W. H. Bledsoe, of Lubbock, for appellant. E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   DAVIDSON, P. J.

Under an indictment charging relator with the murder of Charles Qualey he was arrested, and resorted to a writ of habeas corpus for the purpose of obtaining bail. Upon the trial the trial judge refused to grant him bail, and remanded him to custody.

A review of the facts in the case induces us to believe that the case is bailable, and the court was in error. There are some legal questions raised, but we deem it unnecessary to review them. In the light of the testimony, after a careful revision, we are of opinion that relator is entitled to bail, which is granted and fixed in. the sum of $25,000. Upon the execution of the bond in the terms and under the requirements of the law, the officer having him in charge will approve the bond and release him from custody.

Reversed, and bail granted.