Ex Parte Mendoza

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the 147th Judicial District Court of Travis County, denying a reduction of bail pending an appeal to this court.

The record reflects that following appellant’s conviction and sentence to fifteen years in the Department of Corrections for the offense of unlawful possession of a narcotic drug, District Judge Mace Thurman fixed the amount of his bail at $50,000. When the trial commenced, appellant was on bail set in the sum of $10,000.

At the habeas corpus hearing in which a reduction in the amount of bail was sought, appellant testified that…