Case Name: Ex parte HUGH COCKRUM
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1920-12-21
Citations: 18 Okla. Crim. 712
Docket Number: No. A-3897
Parties: Ex parte HUGH COCKRUM.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 18
Pages: 712–713

Head Matter:
Ex parte HUGH COCKRUM.
No. A-3897
Opinion Filed Dec. 21, 1920.
(193 Pac. 635.)
Petition of Hugh Coekrum for a writ of habeas corpus to be let to bail.
Petition granted.
O. A. Welch, S. E. Welch, and W. D. Welch, for petitioner.
The Attorney General, W. O. Hall, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The petitioner, Hugh Coekrum, filed in this court on December 16tb, 1920. a petition wherein be avers -tba-t be is illegally restrained of bis liberty by H. B. Westerbrook, sheriff of Pushma-taha county, and that his unlawful imprisonment consists in this: that by indictment duly returned by a grant jury of said county petitioner and John Witt were jointly charged with the murder of V. M. Smith; that a bench warrant duly issued and he was committed on said warrant; that an application for bail was denied by the district judge of said county.-
Attached to said petition are numerous affidavits in support thereof and the controverting affidavits of six witnesses for the state have been filed.
It is further averred that the proof of his guilt is not evident) nor the presumption -thereof great, and that for this reason he is entitled to be admitted to bail.
By agreement of parties the cause was submitted upon the affidavits.
Upon a consideration of the testimony submitted it'is the conclusion of the count that bail should be allowed. It is therefore ordered that the petitioner, Hugh Oockrum, be admitted to-bail in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, bond to be conditioned as b;y, 1-aw required, and to be approved by the count clerk of Pushmataha county.