Ex Parte McDonald

OPINION

This is an appeal from the denial of habe-as corpus relief. Appellant, indicted for capital murder, challenged the $1,000,000 pretrial bail amount as being excessive. Following a hearing the court did not reduce the bail, denying the relief sought by appellant.

In three points of error appellant contends the bail is excessive and the court abused its discretion by refusing to lower the amount of bail required. 1

I. Bail in general.

First, we review the rights of an accused to bail and the nature and purpose of bail.

“All prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for…