Ex Parte Stephenson

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was held under an accusation for murder alleged to have been committed August 19, 1913, after the Act of the Legislature, approved April 3, 1913, page 338, abolishing the degrees of murder and changing the penalty therefor was in effect. On a habeas corpus hearing the district judge denied bail, from which appellant prosecuted this appeal.

The statement of facts is quite lengthy. It is the rule of this court not to discuss the facts in habeas corpus bail cases. Before said Act of 1913, the offense of murder was in two degrees, first and second. The…