Ex Parte Hickox

RATTIMORE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Tom Green County refusing-bail to appellant, T. F. Hickox, who is charged with the murder of one Lamar Schrier. The rule is that bail is a matter of right in capital cases except when the proof is evident; which is taken to mean that if the evidence is such as to lead a dispassionate mind to the conclusion that the accused is guilty, and that if the law is properly administered a conviction would be had of a capital offense, in such an event bail should be denied, otherwise it should be granted.

In the instant case…