Ex Parte Key

This is an original application in habeas corpus by Ernest Key to be let to bail. The petitioner sets out that he is held in the jail of Carter county upon a charge of murder and alleges that the proof of his guilt is not evident nor the presumption great. It is further made to appear that a previous application has been made in this case to this court and bail denied, and the petitioner now alleges that since the former hearing he has discovered new and important testimony, which was unknown to him at the time of the former hearing, and which shows that at the time of the homicide charged…