Ex Parte Stokley

HARWOOD, Judge.

These four defendants below are held in custody by the Sheriff of Choctaw County under information filed by said sheriff charging each defendant with murder in the first degree of Jesse Morgan.

On 9 and 10 June 1949, a joint preliminary hearing was had before Honorable Hunter Phillips, Judge of Probate of Choctaw County, and ex officio Judge of the Inferior Court of Choctaw County. After hearing testimony in behalf of the State and the defendants, a separate order was issued by Judge Phillips as to each defendant remanding him to jail without bond.

The defendants thereafter filed…