Ex Parte Fall

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appeal from a judgment denying bail sought under a habeas corpus proceeding before the District Judge of Matagorda County.

Appellant was charged with killing Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn. Appellant’s wife and Mrs. Sanborn were sisters, and for many years appellant had looked after large properties belonging to Mrs. Sanborn. According to the testimony of a witness this business relation had ceased or was about to terminate. Appellant occupied with his family a house in McLennan County belonging to Mrs. Sanborn. The Sanborns lived in Matagorda County. On the day preceding the homicide…