Case Name: Ex parte STEEN
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1920-12-22
Citations: 226 S.W. 684
Docket Number: No. 6111
Parties: Ex parte STEEN.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 226
Pages: 684–684

Head Matter:
Ex parte STEEN.
(No. 6111.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Dec. 22, 1920.)
Habeas corpus <&wkey;l 13(13) — Court of Criminal Appeals will not pass on weight of evidence, where case is to be tried before jury.
, In habeas corpus proceedings, the Court of Criminal Appeals, on reversing judgment re•manding petitioner to custody without bail, and granting such bail, will express no opinion as to the weight of the evidence, inasmuch as the ease is to be tried before a jury.
Appeal from District Court, Bexar County ; W. S. Anderson, Judge.
Habeas corpus proceeding by John Steen. From a judgment remanding him to custody, he appeals.
Reversed, and bail granted.
See, also, 225 S. W. 529.
. Chambers, Watson & Johnson, of San Antonio, for appellant.
Alvin M. Owsley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, P. J.
Under a charge of murder, appellant resorted to a writ of habeas corpus for bail, upon the hearing of Which he was remanded to custody. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.
We have carefully read the evidence, but in view of the fact that the case may be tried by a jury, we refrain from discussing the evidence, or our reasons for the conclusion we have reached. We are of opinion that ap-. pellant should have been granted bail. Therefore the judgment is reversed, and appellant is admitted to bail in the sum of $10,000. The sheriff of Bexar county, or the officer having appellant in custody, will take and approve his bond in the above amount, in the terms of the law, and upon the giving of which appellant shall be discharged from custody.
Reversed, and bail granted.
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