Case Name: Ex Parte Joe Argenta
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1920-10-20
Citations: 88 Tex. Crim. 41
Docket Number: No. 5935
Parties: Ex Parte Joe Argenta.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 88
Pages: 41–41

Head Matter:
Ex Parte Joe Argenta.
No. 5935.
Decided October 20, 1920.
Habeas Corpus—Bail—Practice on Appeal.
Where, appellant was remanded to custody and refused bail in a capital case, and the record on appeal showed that he was entitled to bail, the same is granted.
Appeal from the District Court of Galveston. Tried below before the Honorable Robert G. Street.
Appeal from a habeas corpus proceeding, denying the relator bail, who was charged with murder.
The opinion states the case.
Fuller & Brady, for relator.
Alvin M. Owsley, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Under a charge for murder appellant resorted to a writ of habeas corpus for bail, upon the hearing of which he was remanded to custody. Prom that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.
We have carefully read the evidence, but in view of the fact that the case may be tried before a jury we refrain from discussing the evidence or our reason for the conclusion that we have reached. We are of opinion that appellant should have been granted bail, and, therefore, the judgment is reversed and appellant is admitted to bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars. The sheriff of Galveston County, or officer having appellant in custody, will take and approve his-bond in the above amount in the terms of the law, upon the giving of which appellant will be discharged from custody.
Reversed and bail granted.
Badl granted.