Ex Parte Sherrill
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
The petitioner, II. II. Sherrill, being confined in the .county jail of Pittsburg county, charged with the murder ■of Dan Beats, -alleged to have been.'committed in the town of Kiowa on the 29th day of April, 1913, has applied' for :a-! writ''of habeas corpus in order that he might be allowed bail pending his final trial.
1Opinion of the CourtFurman, J.
'There is an irreconcilable conflict between the evidence for the state and the evidence for petitioner as to the immediate facts of the killing. If this were' all of the evidence in the record, we would not be willing to allow bail in this cause. But these facts should be considered in the light of all of the antecedent- circumstances leading up to the fatal difficulty. •
It was proven by a number of affidavits that the deceased entertained feelings of bitter hatred toward petitioner and had threatened to take the life of petitioner, and that petitioner had frequently requested his friends to…
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