Case Name: Ex parte MEEKS et al.
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1950-02-01
Citations: 226 S.W.2d 437
Docket Number: No. 24731
Parties: Ex parte MEEKS et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 226
Pages: 437–437

Head Matter:
Ex parte MEEKS et al.
No. 24731.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 1, 1950.
Fryer & Milstead, El Paso, for appellant.
William E. Clayton, District Attorney, El Paso, George P. Blackburn, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
GRAVES, Judge.
Relators were both charged with the unlawful killing of one, Enrique Tercero, a carpenter; and upon the hearing and granting of a writ of habeas corpus before the late lamented Judge W. D. Howe, they were both refused bail and were remanded to the custody of the sheriff.
The facts presented by the State show that these men, after some kind of a difficulty with some Mexicans at a town called Dell City in Hudspeth County, each relator being armed, one with a pistol and one with a shotgun, entered the tent house in which the deceased and his wife were living on a ranch about a mile from such town. Several shots were fired by them, and the body of the deceased was soon found with two fatal wounds thereon, one from a bullet and another from a shotgun, either wound being fatal.
No testimony was offered by the rela-tors.
We think the testimony here shown justified the careful trial judge in refusing bail.
The judgment is accordingly affirmed.