Ex Parte Lawrence

The defendant is under indictment • charged with murder in the first degree, and through this petition makes application for bail. Under the Constitution and laws of this state, every person charged with crime, whether before or after indictment found, is entitled to bail before conviction as matter of right, except when the offense may be punished capitally, and even then if the proof is not evident or the presumption great of defendant’s guilt. Ex parte McAnally, 53 Ala. 495, 25 Am. Rep. 646, Con. 1901, § 16. In passing upon questions of bail arising under the section of the Constitution…