Ex parte Walton

— At the February term, 1882, of the Decatur Circuit Court, an indictment was duly returned against Ellen V. Walton, charging her with, •murder in the first degree, as an accessory before the fact. Being in the-custody of the sheriff of Decatur county, under said indictment, she presented her petition to the court below for a writ of habeas corpus, in order that she might be admitted to bail. The grounds of her application were, that the proof was not evident, nor the presumption strong, of her guilt of the offence wherewith she was charged. The court granted the' writ, and upon a full…