Robinson v. State

PRICE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the-Circuit Court of Jefferson County denying; appellant bail in a habeas corpus proceeding.

The indictment charges that defendant did carnally know, or abused in the attempt to carnally know, a girl under the age of' twelve years.

Section 16 of the Constitution of 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”.

In the case of Colvin v. State, Ala. App., 53 So.2d 99, 100,1 Judge Harwood *529wrote a comprehensive opinion on…