Brakefield v. State

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of Honorable Roy Mayhall, Judge of the Circuit Court of Walker County, denying appellant bail in a habeas corpus proceeding. The *434appeal is brought in accordance with Code 1940, Tit. 15, § 369, as amended by Act No. 60, appvd. June 21, 1955, Acts 1955, Vol. 1, p. 294.

On May 22, 1955, appellant was committed to jail by the sheriff of Walker County pursuant to a warrant of arrest issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Walker County charging appellant with murder in the first degree. On May 30, 1959, appellant filed a petition for habeas corpus…