Ex Parte: Jones v. Cunningham

In this case the petitioner procured a writ of habeas corpus from a Justice of this Court. The return filed shows that petitioner was held under a commitment from the County Judge’s Court pursuant to being charged in that court with the offense of murder in the first degree. That the petitioner after being committed to jail to be held to await the action of the Grand Jury without bond, applied to the Honorable John U. Bird, Judge of the Circuit Court in and for Pinellas County, for a writ of habeas corpus, contending that he was entitled to bail because the proof was not evident nor the…