Ex parte Walker & Black

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Chambers County refusing bail to relators, they having made application for the same under provisions of article 524 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Pasc. Dig., art. 2992), which is in these words: “If a defendant in a capital case demand a trial, and it appear that more than one continuance has been granted to the state, and that the defendant has not applied for a continuance, he shall be entitled to be admitted to bail, and unless it appear from the written statement of the district attorney, or by the oath of some credible…