State v. Massey

The appeal in this case is by the state from an order of -court allowing the petitioner bail; he being restrained by virtue of an indictment charging murder in the first degree.

On March 3, 1924, at about 12:45 a. m. the petitioner, while driving a five-passenger automobile westward on avenue F, in the city of Birmingham, collided with a Louisville & Nashville Railroad freight train where the railroad tracks of said company cross avenue F at Seventh street. At the time of the collision there were riding in the ■car with' petitioner Mrs. Bowden (the deceased) and three other persons. The…