Brown v. State

The appellants, John Brown, John Sexton and Robert Land, were charged by indictment in the lower court with murder in the first degree, in the shooting and killing, on December 29, 1896, of one John M. Rippey. On the 7th of January, 1897, they sought, jointly and severally, by motion, under section 1785, Burns’ R. S. 1894, to be let to bail. Thereafter, and upon hearing the evidence of the appellee’s witnesses, the circuit court denied said motion. From said ruling this appeal is prosecuted.

By the language of the Constitution, section 62, Burns’ R. S. 1894, and of the statute, section 1755,…