COLVIN v. STATE

6 Div. 351.

53 So.2d 99 (1951)

COLVIN v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

June 7, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. W. Skidmore and John W. Finnell, Tuscaloosa, and Beddow & Jones, Birmingham, for appellant.

Si Garrett, Atty. Gen., and A. A. Carmichael, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


HARWOOD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the lower court denying the appellant bail in a habeas corpus proceeding.

The appellant is now under indictment for murder in the first degree.

One of the rights woven firmly and clearly in our jurisprudential fabric is an accused's right to bail. This right appears in the Constitution of every State in this union, and in our federal constitution.

Section 16 of the Alabama Constitution of 1901...

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