Ex parte Williams

OPINION

DAVIS, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from an order of the Criminal District Court, of Dallas County, denying a reduction of bail pending an appeal to this court.

The record reflects that appellant was convicted of burglary and assessed the maximum punishment of twelve years in the Department of Corrections. The trial court set the amount of his bail pending appeal at $50,000.

At the habeas corpus hearing in which a reduction in the amount of bail was sought, it was shown that appellant had been previously convicted in seventeen felony cases involving worthless checks, forgery, and…