Ex parte Lumpkin

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant, relator in the district court, filed his application for writ of habeas corpus alleging that he was confined in jail under warrant of a magistrate before whom a complaint had been filed charging him with murder, and that his confinement was illegal because he had been denied bond.

The writ was granted and hearing set for January 3, 1958, upon which date the Sheriff filed an amended return setting out that appellant was then being detained upon a warrant issued by the district clerk upon an indictment charging appellant with murder and also appellant was being detained…