McCarroll v. Faust

WEST, Chief Judge.

Petitioner, Frank Brent McCarroll, is under Grand Jury indictment for murder and is being held, pending trial, in the parish jail in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, without benefit of bail. He petitions this Court for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus contending that to deny him the benefit of bail is to deny him the presumption of innocence to which he is entitled, and that to deny him the benefit of bail is to punish him for an offense without due process of law contrary to the Constitution and laws of the United States. He also contends that to be thus held without…