Case Name: Ex parte CHARLEY BROACH et al.
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1920-07-17
Citations: 17 Okla. Crim. 731
Docket Number: No. A-3614
Parties: Ex parte CHARLEY BROACH et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 17
Pages: 731–732

Head Matter:
Ex parte CHARLEY BROACH et al.
No. A-3614.
Opinion Filed July 17, 1920.
(189 Pac. 746.)
Petition by Charley Roach. F. H. Anthony. ':md James J. Kelly for writ habeas corpus to have bail reduced.
Writ dismissed.
L. L. Roberts, for petitioners.
The Attorney -General, Rollin (’. Clark. Co., Atty., an(t 'A. M. Simmons, Asst. Co. Atty., for the respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The petitioners. Charley Roach, F. H. Anthony and James J. Kelly, filed their application for a writ of habeas corpus in this court on August 18. 1919. alleging that they were unlawfully imprisoned and restrained of their liberty by Lee Webb, sheriff of Craig county: ihaf tin* cause of said restraint is that petitioners were jointly charged with the larceny of a Ford automobile, and upon their preliminary examination before the judge of the county court of Craig county on the 9th day of August, 1919, it was ordered that each of -.them be held to answer said charge in the district court of Craig county at Uie November, 1919, term thereof and the said magistrate fixed the amount of petitioners Anthony's and Kelly's bail, each 'in the. sum of $25,000, and fixed petitioner Roach's bail in the amount of $10,000, and alleging that the amount of said bail so fixed is excessive, unreasonable and. disproportionate to the offense involved and denies to petitioners their constitutional right to have reasonable bail; that Hon. A. C. Brewster, judge of the district court of Craig county, is absent from the state and is now in the state of Colorado and will not return to said judicial district until about the 18th day of September, 1919., and praying that their bail as hereinbefore set forth be reduced and the same fixed at a reasonable amount. On the same day llieir counsel presented their application to the court. The writ was granted as prayed for and made returnable before the district court of Ottawa county, or the judge thereof. .S. O. Fullerton, at the district court room in the court house at Miami, Oklahoma, 1:30 p. m., August 25th, or as soon there,after as the court or judge thereof may designate It appears from the record filed with the clerk of this court ihat return was duly made and upon a hearing on the 27th day of August, 1919, before Judge Fullerton, it was by him considered, ordered and adjudged that: 'the applicants. Charley Roach, F. H. Anthony and James J. Kelly, he admitted to bail each in file sum of $5,000, with good and sufficient sureties to' he approved hv the court clerk of Craig county, stale of Oklahoma.