Ex Parte Williams

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

This is an appeal from certain rulings made by a district court judge after hearing a postindictment but pretrial petition for writ of habeas corpus that sought discharge from what was alleged to be illegal confinement and restraint by the Sheriff of Travis County “by virtue of an unreasonably high bond.” We first sketch a factual background to the issues appellant would have us consider.

Learning from a telephone conversation with his wife that Travis County deputy sheriffs had executed a search warrant for his residence and seized a sizeable amount of photographic…