Ex parte Hay

Decided June 15, 1887

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1887-06-15

Habeas corpus on appeal from the District Court of La Salle. Tried below before the Hon. D„ P. Marr. The appeal in this case was prosecuted from the order of the district judge of La Salle county refusing bail to the applicant, who was held under an indictment charging him with the murder of George Hill, on the second day of January, 1887. ' The evidence is stated below in the order in which it appears in the record.

Decided 1887-06-15

Hurt, Judge.

¶1This is an appeal from a judgment denying bail to the relator. Upon the statement of facts brought up with the record, we are constrained to differ from the learned judge who sat upon the habeas corpus hearing below, in holding that the proof is evident of appellant’s guilt of murder in the first degree.

¶2The judgment is reversed and the relator is admitted to bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and it is ordered that he be discharged from custody upon the execution of such bond, with good and sufficient sureties and conditioned in the terms of the law.

¶3Ordered accordingly.