Ex Parte Mathis

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— The relator is under indictment for murder. Bail has been denied, hence this appeal.

Three children lost their lives in the tragedy. They were asphyxiated by gas. The relator was their grandfather. He and they lived in a small house, in which also lived the father and mother of the children. The relations between the father and mother were bad. The mother had gone to Port Arthur; the father, according to his testimony, left home to go to work at about ten o’clock at night. The children were in bed. The relator slept in an adjoining room, and on the other side was the…