Stokes v. Terrell

Appellant, in prison charged with murder, applied for bail under a writ of .habeas corpus. The circuit judge, after hearing all the testimony, denied the application and remanded the prisoner.

The record presents no questions of law, but involves a review solely upon the facts. It has been the usual course in this court on appeals in this class of cases to forego comment in detail on the evidence, unless the necessity therefor is unavoidable. The reason for this course, in advance of the principal trial, is manifest. Therefore, all we say is that, under all the testimony, when taken in…