Ex Parte De Leon

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order declining to reduce bail after indictment. Appellant is laboring under the impression that his financial ability to make bail is the sole test. In this, he is in error. In Ex parte Cascio, 140 Tex.Cr.R. 288, 144 S.W.2d 886, as in the case at bar, petitioner had asked the court to hold that the bond set by the trial court be declared unreasonable. This Court held that this was asking the court to go too far; the ability of the accused to make bond was not alone controlling. 1 Also, we held that the trial court could set bond in “an amount…