Parnell v. State

Appellant, Hubert Parnell, on October 15, 1943, was charged with the crime of murder in the first degree, committed by the fatal shooting of Harry Henderson, town marshal of Bradford, White county, Arkansas. . He was committed to jail without bail, (§ 3750, Pope’s Digest) by a justice of the peace of White county, there to await the action of the circuit court.

On tlie 16tli day of October, by petition to tlie White circuit court, appellant was granted a writ of habeas corpus and after hearing before the court, at which many witnesses testified on behalf of the petitioner and the state, bail…