Ex Parte L.G. Hanks

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Relator, charged by indictment with the offense of murder, appeals from an order of the district judge denying bail.

Without rehearing the evidence, these are the undisputed facts: Bud Dixon, L. V. Nobles and the relator were traveling in an auto mobile. Dixon and Nobles, negroes, were riding in the front seat and' relator in the-rear seat. The curtains of the car were up. Between the front and hear seats was a jug of whisky. Vaught, the sheriff, and John Martin, his deputy, stationed their automobile upon a bridge on the road in such a manner as to prevent the car…