EX PARTE MORRIS

No. 25635.

243 S.W.2d 852 (1951)

Ex parte MORRIS.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 28, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dent, Durham & Doyle, Houston, for appellant.

Sam W. Davis, Crim. Dist. Atty., King C. Haynie, Asst. Crim. Dist. Atty., Spurgeon E. Bell, Special Prosecutor, all of Houston, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


GRAVES, Presiding Judge.

The relator was duly charged by a grand jury indictment with the crime of murder.

He sued out a writ of habeas corpus before the Honorable A. C. Winborn, Judge of the Criminal District Court No. 3 of Harris County, Texas, for the purpose of securing bail which had been refused him prior thereto. The matter was heard before the judge, and after hearing the testimony offered by the State, the court refused bail and committed appellant...

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