Ex Parte Goosby

OPINION

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court setting bond at $250,000 each for four capital murder indictments and $25,000 for an attempted capital murder indictment for a total amount of $1,025,000 bond. At a bond reduction hearing, the trial court denied a motion for reduction of a bond on all five indictments.

We note that the Constitution and laws of Texas allow bond to be denied in a capital murder case where the State shows at a hearing that the proof is evident that the defendant is guilty and will be sentenced to death. Tex.Const.Art. I, sec. 11. The State did not seek…