Case Name: Ex Parte Charlie Knox
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1928-01-25
Citations: 108 Tex. Crim. 617
Docket Number: No. 11619
Parties: Ex Parte Charlie Knox.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 108
Pages: 617–617

Head Matter:
Ex Parte Charlie Knox.
No. 11619.
Delivered January 25, 1928.
The opinion states the case.
Ira Lawley, Kennedy & Erigledow and L. W. Sheppeard of Groesbeck, for appellant.
A. A. Dawson, State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
Appellant was indicted for robbery by the use of firearms. He sought through habeas corpus proceeding to be released on bail. From an order remanding him without bail this appeal is prosecuted.
Appellant and two others robbed a bank at Tehuacana, in Limestone County, and obtained something over $1,600. Appellant and one other robber exhibited pistols and presented them at the bank officers, by means of which the robbery was effected. No shots were fired; no one was injured, the reason, perhaps, being that no resistance was offered.
The principles controlling where the question of bail is involved have been so frequently discussed it is useless to again review them. (See Art. 1, Sec. II, Constitution; Ex Parte Smith, 23 Tex. Crim. App. 100, 5 S. W. 99; Ex Parte Beacon, 12 Tex. Crim. App. 318; Ex Parte Evers, 29 Tex. Crim. App. 539; 16 S. W. 343; Ex Parte Russell, 71 Tex. Crim. Rep. 377, 160 S. W. 75; Ex Parte Young, 87 Tex. Crim. Rep. 413, 222 S. W. 242.) The case of Scott v. State, 90 Tex. Crim. Rep. 201, 234 S. W. 220, is direct authority on the point that appellant was entitled to bail.
The judgment refusing bail is reversed and bail granted in the sum of $15,000.00.
Reversed and bail granted.