Ex Parte Alaniz

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant, here, relator in the court below, was charged by complaint in the Justice Court of Precinct No. One of Jim Wells County, with the murder, with malice aforethought, of Jacob S. Floyd, Jr., alleged to have been committed in said county on or about September 8, 1952.

After hearing in said justice court, sitting in examining trial, appellant was remanded to the custody of the sheriff of said county, without bail, to await the action of the grand jury of that county.

Appellant sought, by writ of habeas corpus before the judge of the district court of said county, to have…