Ex Parte Bates
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Honorable L. D. Guinn. Appeal from a habeas corpus proceeding denying bail in a capital case. The opinion states the case. Cited cases in opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
HAWKINS, Judge.'
On Sunday night, November 20, 1921, appellant and his wife lived in a small box house in Nacogdoches County. About eight or eight-thirty o’clock a fire was discovered by some neighbors who had to go about a mile from their place to the scene of the fire; and when they reached the house it was about consumed and portions of it had already fallen in. When within one hundred and fifty or two hundred yards of the place they discovered appellant in the yard, first having heard him hollering or making some noise. Upon approaching the place closer they found him entirely nude, but…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ex Parte HillCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1918
3Cited by1 opinion
- Ex Parte GraggCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1945