Ex parte Bowles

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order refusing appellant bail, after indictment for murder.

Both the state and the applicant developed the facts more fully than is usually done in application-for-bail cases,

*426On the day prior to the killing, the deceased, a mature man Who had a reputation for mistreating his own wife and also other persons, slapped his sister-in-law, the ninety-five pound pregnant wife of appellant, during the course of an argument. There was some evidence that such assault was unjustified.

Appellant was in Chicago at the time. His wife called him and told him of the…