Ex Parte Ross

HAWKINS Judge.

Separate indictments were returned by the grand jury of Gaines County against Tom Ross and Milt Good charging each of them with the murder of W. D. Allison and H. S. Roberson. Upon habeas corpus hearing before Hon. Clarke M. Mullican, Judge of the 72d Judicial District they were denied bail, and from such order the cases are before us on appeal.

We give only a very condensed statement of the facts. Allison and Roberson were employees of the Texas Cattle Raisers Association, and had been active in the investigation of alleged cattle thefts in Gaines and other counties. Largely as…