Ex parte Hill

Brannon, Judge:

Hill having been convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for felony for receiving stolen goods, obtained a writ of error, and then petitioned the circuit court of Marion' County to be allowed bail until the decision of the writ of error, and that court having refused bail, he coinés to this' Court by petition for a writ of habeas corpus in order to have this Court to grant him bail.

The case does not involve the question discussed in Ex Parte Eastham, 43 W. Va. 637, whether upon habeas corpus seeking bail only this Court can grant bail before conviction. In' that case the…