Lee v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order entered by Judge F. O. Whitten, Jr., of the Circuit Court for St. Clair County, denying to the petitioner bail in a habeas corpus proceeding held on May 1, 1967.

The petitioner (here appellant) has been charged with murder in the first degree and the Grand Jury has entered an indictment so charging.

The 16th section of the Constitution of Alabama (1901) provides that “all persons shall, before conviction, be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses, when the proof is evident or the presumption great; and that excessive bail…