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170 S.W. 308

Ex parte Burton

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 28, 1914

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1914-10-28

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.

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Reversed, and bond fixed in the sum of $7,500 · Decided 1914-10-28

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Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2018

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HARPER, J.

¶1Appellant, 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 *309murder 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.

¶2The judgment is reversed, and bond fixed in the sum of $7,500.

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