Ex Parte Burton
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hemphill. Appeal from a habeas corpus proceeding denying hail in a murder case.
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
—Appellant, under a complaint charging him with murder, .was remanded to jail without bond on habeas corpus hearing. The evidence would show that trouble existed because of differences growing out of the relationship of landlord and tenant, appellant being a tenant of deceased. The State’s evidence would support a verdict of murder upon express malice, therefore rendering the case non-bailable. But the defendant’s evidence raises the issues of self-defense and imperfect self-defense with such cogency as we think to require the court to submit those issues to the juri7, and a…
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