Ex Parte Brinker

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The appeal is from an order of the District Court of Bowie County refusing to admit the relator to bail.

Edwin Brinker is under indictment for the murder of P. A. McSwain. It appears that the dead body of McSwain was discovered in the closet or pantry in the house in which he was an inmate. His body was wrapped in a sheet upon which there were powder burns and blood, also a hole indicating that McSwain had been shot while wrapped in the sheet. It was shown that upon his body was a gunshot wound sufficient to cause instant death.

In the brief of the State’s Attorney…