Fikes v. State

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

The information charged murder in the first degree and the defendant admitted she killed Robert Coleman by stabbing him with a butcher knife. In the application for bail the‘only witness was Joe W. McCoy, the prosecuting attorney. The defendant had told McCoy how the killing occurred, but claimed self-defense, and McCoy as a witness called by the accused undertook to repeat in substance what Annie Mae had said. It was the trial court’s view that a jury could find that the ingredients of first degree murder were present, hence bail was denied. In an application to…