Ex Parte Benardino Lerma

GRAVES, Judge.

Relator was charged by complaint in the justice court of Nueces County with the offense of murder. Upon an examining trial, after hearing evidence, he was remanded without bail to the custody of the sheriff to await the action of the grand jury. He, thereafter, made application to the district judge for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted, and, upon the hearing of such writ, bail was again denied him, and he appeals.

There was an agreement by and between relator’s attorneys and the State that the testimony taken on the examining trial in the justice court, and which was in…