Patterson v. State

NIX, Judge.

This is an original proceeding for a Writ of Habeas Corpus filed by the petitioner, Orville Patterson, seeking a reduction of bail set in the amount of $40,000.00 in the Oklahoma County District Court by Supernumerary Judge John A. Brett. The petitioner is charged by information in the district court of said County with the crime of Armed Robbery.

The facts adduced at the hearing in this Court, are briefly: that the night clerk at the Congress Inn Motel testified that the petitioner came in and asked for two rooms, he advised him that one was available. Petitioner kept hanging…