In re the Habeas Corpus of Hill

POWELL, Presiding Judge.

Ruben Hill filed a verified petition for a writ of habeas corpus to be admitted to bail upon a charge of murder, which was pending against him in the district court of Creek County, Oklahoma.

At the hearing before this court on September 20, 1954, the case was submitted upon the transcript of the testimony of witnesses who testified at the preliminary hearing, including the testimony of the defendant, together with an affidavit of one Lance Harrison, witness to the fatal difficulty between the defendant and Wince Nunn, Jr., now deceased.

Of course at a preliminary the…