Ex Parte Powers

DICE, Commissioner.

Appellant, being charged in the State of Florida with the crime of murder in the first degree and in custody of the sheriff of Harris County under a fugitive warrant issued by the justice of the peace of Precinct #1 of Harris County, presented his application for writ of habeas corpus to Honorable Sam W. Davis, judge of the Criminal District Court #5 of Harris County, in which he sought his release from custody by either an order of discharge or order fixing bail.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered by Judge Davis after a hearing which, among other things, denied…