Case Name: Ex parte BURTON
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1914-10-28
Citations: 170 S.W. 308
Docket Number: No. 3323
Parties: Ex parte BURTON.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 170
Pages: 308–309

Head Matter:
Ex parte BURTON.
(No. 3323.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Oct. 28, 1914.)
Bail (§ 43*)— Cbiminal Pbosecution — Right to Bail.
Where the evidence for the state under a complaint charging murder would support a verdict of murder upon express malice, an offense not bailable, but defendant’s evidence raises the issues of self-defense and imperfect self-defense, so as to require their submission to the jury, he was entitled to bail.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Bail, Cent. Dig. §§ 153-164; Dec. Dig. § 43.*]
Appeal from District Court, Hemphill County ; F. P. Greever, Judge.
J. N. Burton, under a complaint charging him with murder, was remanded to jail without bond on habeas corpus hearing, and he appeals.
Reversed, and bond fixed in the sum of $7,500.
J. F. Cunningham, of Abilene, and Frank Willis, of Canadian, for appellant. C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
HARPER, J.
Appellant, under a complaint charging him with murder, was remanded to jail without bond on habeas corpus hearing. The evidence would show that trouble existed because of differences growing out of the relationship of landlord and tenant; ap.pellant being a tenant of deceased. The state's evidence would support a verdict of murder upon express malice, therefore rendering the case nonbailable. But the defendant's evidence raises the issues of self-defense and imperfect self-defense with such cogency as we think to require the court to submit those issues to the jury, and a court cannot say that a jury would not be justified in finding for the defendant on one or the other of those defenses, and under such circumstances we think the court erred in refusing to grant appellant bail.
The judgment is reversed, and bond fixed in the sum of $7,500.