Ex Parte Hubbard

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Andrew Hill, Charlie Lee, S. T. Hubbard, and Joe Johnson were jointly indicted for the murder of R. F. Talley.

The record shows that upon a severance Andrew Hill had been tried and given the death penalty, from which an appeal is now pending in this court.

Relator applied for a writ of habeas corpus seeking bail. Upon a hearing bail was denied, and it is from the order denying bail that this appeal is prosecuted.

W. C. Shipp and R. F. Talley were Deputy Sheriffs of Bowie County, Texas, and on the night of November 8, 1947, they were working on the highway around the beer…