Ex parte Keeling

The petition in this case shows, that Keeling, the applicant, was committed, on a preliminary exam*475ination on a charge of murder, by order and warrant of Hon. Littleberry Strange, judge of the 9th judicial circuit, to the jail of Macon county, on the 16th day of October, 1873, to be kept in custody until legally discharged. Afterwards, on application to Hon. J. T. Menefee, probate judge of said county of Macon, said Keeling was ordered to be brought before him, on a writ of habeas corpus, for the purpose of hearing an application of said Keeling for bail, on the charge for which he had been…