Case Name: Ex Parte Salvesta Montalbano
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1923-11-21
Citations: 96 Tex. Crim. 47
Docket Number: No. 8330
Parties: Ex Parte Salvesta Montalbano
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 96
Pages: 47–47

Head Matter:
Ex Parte Salvesta Montalbano
No. 8330.
Decided November 21, 1923.
Habeas Corpus — Bail—Waylaying.
Where, upon appeal from a judgment below refusing bail, the record showed that appellant waylaid and shot the deceased without any extenuating facts appearing, the judgment below is affirmed.
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Harris. Tried below before the Honorable C. W. Robinson.
Appeal from a habeas corpus proceeding denying bail.
The opinion states the case.
No brief on file for appellant.
Tom Garrard and Grover G. Morris, Assistants Attorney General, for the State.
Cited, Ex parte Harris, 90 Texas Crim. Rep., 246; Ex parte Townsley, 87 id., 252; Ex parte Hicks, recently decided.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
— This This is an appeal from a judgment of the Criminal District Court of Harris County refusing bail to relator..
Relator was charged with the murder of one Sam Guido. According to the State's witnesses Guido was picking cotton in his field and as he approached the fence at the end of the cotton rows, was shot in the breast with a large number of buckshot, killing him instantly. That the shot was fired by appellant is not denied. Prom the State's testimony it is clear that deceased neither said nor did anything prior to the shooting which might" affect the legal status of same. In other words it is in accord with the State's testimony that appellant waylaid and shot Guido without any extenuating fact appearing. No one contradicts these facts except the appellant and as we understand his testimony given before the trial judge, he makes conflicting explanations and statements. We are not persuaded that the learned trial judge abused his discretion in refusing bail.
The judgment will be affirmed. .
Affirmed.