Case Name: Ex parte LOPEZ
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1916-01-12
Citations: 182 S.W. 310
Docket Number: No. 3902
Parties: Ex parte LOPEZ.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 182
Pages: 310–310

Head Matter:
Ex parte LOPEZ.
(No. 3902.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 12, 1916.)
Bail <@==>43 — Homicide—Evidence.
Where relator was charged with murder, the homicide being committed in perpetration of a robbery, but the proof was not evident that relator was present or connected with the homicide, held, that relator was entitled to bail.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Bail, Cent. Dig. §§ 153-164; Dec. Dig. <@=>43.]
Appeal from District Court, Cameron County; W. B. Hopkins, Judge.
Proceedings by Lorenzo Lopez, Jr., for admission to bail.
Application granted.
Frank C. Pierce and Webster & Green, all of Brownsville, for appellant. C. O. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, J.
Relator was arrested, charged with murder. The homicide was committed in the perpetration of robbery. If appellant participated in that killing and robbery, he would not be entitled to bail. This would be murder of the first degree under the prior statute, and if the facts are shown with sufficient cogency, it would still be a capital case, if the jury saw proper to so find. The serious question in the case is relator's presence at the time and place. We are of opinion, without stating the facts, that the proof is not evident that he was present or connected with the homicide. It leaves our minds in such doubt that we are of opinion relator is entitled to bail, which is granted in the sum of $10,000. Upon the giving of this bond in the terms of the law, to be approved by the sheriff of Cameron county, relator will be discharged from custody.