Ex Parte Young
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Montgomery during vacation. Tried below before the Honorable B. F. Singleton, District Judge, denying bail to the relator. This case was originally appealed as No. 5783, and appellant was permitted to withdraw the transcript that the trial judge might certify to same in accordance with the statutes, which was done and the case now heard upon its merits.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Judge.
This is an appeal from the order of the district judge denying bail. Appellant was charged with the murder of Bertha Snooks, a girl about eighteen years of age. The evidence discloses that while sitting in the kitchen at her father’s home she was shot and killed, her assailant using a shotgun loaded with buckshot. The State relies upon circumstances to identify the appellant as the assassin. We refrain from making a detailed statement and analysis of the evidence, such being the practice in cases of this character. Sharp v. State, 1 Texas Crim. App., 299; Ex parte Day, 3 Texas…
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