Ex Parte Meyers
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from McLennan County. Tried below before Hon. L. W. Goodrich, in chambers. Appellant was committed to the custody of the sheriff of Milam County, by a justice of the peace, for the murder of one W. A. Bink-ley. He applied for a writ of habeas corpus to the Hon. L. W. Goodrich, judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District, who granted the same. At the hearing under the writ relator was denied bail, and it is from that judgment this appeal is prosecuted.
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Appeal from McLennan County. Tried below before Hon. L. W. Goodrich, in chambers. Appellant was committed to the custody of the sheriff of Milam County, by a justice of the peace, for the murder of one W. A. Bink-ley. He applied for a writ of habeas corpus to the Hon. L. W. Goodrich, judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District, who granted the same. At the hearing under the writ relator was denied bail, and it is from that judgment this appeal is prosecuted. The following is the evidence introduced on the hearing under the writ of habeas corpus: “Beit remembered, that on a trial of the…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
1. We do.not think that the court erred in refusing bail in this case.
2. On the habeas corpus trial relator objected to the evidence of A. H. Jones, deceased, taken at the inquest held over W. A. Binkley, deceased, on the ground that relator was forced, over his protest and that of his counsel, to be present at said inquest, and that he refused to take any part therein.
The district judge overruled the objection and admitted the testimony.
The record shows, that on the 14th day of January, 1894, relator tilled W. A.'Binkley and mortally wounded A. EL Jones, who died the next…
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