State v. Wright

Petitioners listed above, while confined in the county1 jail under an indictment charging them with murder in the first degree, brought habeas corpus to determine whether or not they were entitled to bail. After hearing the- testimony and the arguments of counsel, the learned circuit judge entered orders, allowing each of the said petitioners bail, in the respective amounts named in said orders.

This appeal, ■ taken by the state, has been carefully considered by this court, sitting en barte. The entire evidence which was before the circuit judge, and upon which his orders were based, has been…