Smith v. Bridges

PRICE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Mobile County denying, appellant bail in a habeas corpus pro-, ceeding.

The appellant is held by the Sheriff of Mobile County, Alabama, under a commitment issued by the Court of General Sessions of Mobile County, after a preliminary-hearing, in which petitioner was bound-over, without bail, on a charge of rape, to await the action of the grand jury.

Section 16 of the Constitution of 1901 provides: “That all persons shall, before conviction, be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses, when the proof is…