Ex Parte Drake

TMs original action in habeas corpus was instituted by the petitioners, Norman Elmer Drake and Glaydestel Drake, for the purpose of being admitted to bail on a charge of rape in the first degree now pending against them in the district court of Pon-totoc county.

The verified petition alleges that petitioners were jointly charged in a criminal complaint filed before a justice of peace in Pontotoc county on December 28, 1948, with having committed the crime of rape in the first degree; that after a preliminary examination was held before said justice of peace, both of said petitioners were…