Wilbanks v. State

John Wilbanks is in custody of the Sheriff of Elmore County under an indictment for first-degree murder presented by the grand jury of that county charging him with killing Barbara Lucas King with a gun. The Honorable Edwin Sanford, Judge of the Elmore County Court, after a hearing on a petition for habeas corpus for bail, denied the writ.

Our decision in Colvin v. State, 36 Ala.App. 104, 53 So.2d 99, lays down what we consider to be the principles for the interpretation of § 16 of the Constitution which reads as follows:

“That all persons shall, before conviction, be bailable by sufficient…