Ex parte Johnson

In May, 1892, the defendant, Rufus Johnson, was committed to jail by a justice of the peace of Jackson county upon a charge of murder in the first degree committed by shooting one James Cole, to await the action of the grand jury upon said charge. The defendant then made application to the circuit judge in vacation for bail, but, after hearing the evidence, bail was refused. In July following the grand jury, after an investigation of the charge, returned into the circuit court an indictment against said defendant for the crime of murder in the second degree.

After the return of this indictment…