Ex Parte Patterson

GRAVES, Judge.

Relator was resting under an indictment of a grand jury charging the voluntary killing with malice of W. H. Sanders, and upon a habeas corpus hearing before the District Judge, he was remanded to jail without bond, from which judgment he appeals.

The testimony herein presented shows that relator entered the store of Mr. Sanders and shot him, presumably firing five shots, one striking the deceased just back of the ear on the left-hand side of the head, and two other shots striking him in the back, leaving powder burns, and two shots going into some shelves. There seems to have…