Ex Parte Carter and Miller

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the district judge refusing bail.

Relators are charged by indictment with the murder of John Laing. It is averred that they killed deceased by striking and wounding him with an iron rod. On May 17th, 1928 deceased and his wife came from Houston to Lufkin in an automobile, stopping at .a house near Lufkin where they spent the night. Deceased was killed in this house on the date last mentioned. It appears that the wife of deceased and two of his children were severely wounded. It is not shown that they were attacked on the same occasion that…