Application of Severns

Petitioner charged in the district court of Cleveland County with the crime of murder seeks release from the Cleveland County jail, to be admitted to bail pending trial.

The murder took place along the Cleveland-Oklahoma County line and the charge was first filed in Oklahoma County. By reason of the grave physical and mental condition defendant, a woman of about fifty years of age, was shown to be in, and by reason of apparent need for hospitalization, we ruled that petitioner should be released on bail. See case No. A-12,666, Application of Severns, Okl.Cr., 330 P.2d 748. But the charge in…