Ex parte Simon

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

Appellant is in custody of the sheriff of Lamar County to answer an indictment charging him with assault upon a peace officer with intent to murder.

Bond was set at $25,000. The petitioner made habeas corpus application to the Sixth Judicial District Court of Lamar County for a reduction in bail, alleging his ability to make bail in the sum of $5,000. The court refused to reduce the petitioner’s bail.

At the hearing, Officer Bill Lang of the Paris Police Department testified that on May 6, 1971, he received a complaint that the appellant was drunk and had threatened to…