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29 Tex. Ct. App. 138

Ex parte Bates

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided October 18, 1890

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1890-10-18

Habeas corpus on appeal from the District Court of Harris. Tried below before Hon. James Masterson. This was a proceeding by habeas corpus for bail, the charge against the relator being the murder of A. E. Frazier, in Houston, Harris County, on the 2d day of August, 1890. The order of the judge below remanding the relator without bail is reversed, and he is awarded bail in the sum of $5000. The testimony will be summarized in the order in which it appears in the record.

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Decided 1890-10-18

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WHITE, Presiding Judge.

¶1The relator having been arrested for the murder of one A. E, Frazier, applied to the Hon. James Masterson, judge of the Eleventh Judicial District, for oail under a writ of habeas corpus. The writ was granted, but upon a hearing of the same bail was refused,, and applicant remanded to custody. From the judgment refusing him bail he has prosecuted this appeal.

¶2We have maturely considered the evidence as presented in the record,, in connection with the able argument of counsel, and our conclusion is: that upon the facts appellant is entitled to bail. It is not the practice in this court in granting bail to discuss the facts of the case.

¶3The judgment refusing appellant bail is reversed; and upon his entering into a bond for his appearance to answer an indictment for the murder of said Frazier, in the sum of $5000, with good and sufficient sureties, conditioned as the law directs, the sheriff of Harris County will release him from custody under the mittimus by which he holds him issued by the examining court.

¶4Judgment reversed and appellant admitted to bail in the sum of $5000.

¶5Ordered accordingly.

¶6Judges all present and concurring.

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