Ex parte Wray
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the judgment of Hon. Phineas T. Sceuggs, Judge of the Seventh Judicial District, on habeas corpus, refusing bail to Jacob K. Wray. The material facts of the case will be found in the opinion of the court and the dissenting opinion of Mi*. Justice íLustdy.
1Opinion of the Court
Fishee, J.:
The petitioner, being in custody, awaiting his trial upon an indictment preferred against him by the grand jury of Pontotoc county, for the murder of one Clarke S. Brown, applied to the judge of the seventh judicial district of this state to be admitted to bail; and the court, after hearing the testimony, as well on behalf of the petitioner as of the prosecution, refused the application, and remanded him to the custody of the sheriff of said county. The object of the writ of error is to revise the judgment thus pronounced.
We have given to the testimony, as shown by the record, a…
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