Ex Parte, Leo Stafford

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from an order refusing bail upon an application for a writ of habeas corpus, appellant being charged by indictment of the offense of murder.

The evidence shows that the appellant, using a pistol, shot the deceased and inflicted a wound from which he afterwards died'. The parties were at the home of a negro woman named Geneva Felder, an aunt of the deceased. Immediately before the homicide, appellant and the woman had engaged in a scuffle, and the deceased came to her aid. After having been shot by the appellant, the deceased was able to walk away, but…