Ex Parte Perez

428 S.W.2d 323 (1968)

Ex parte Raul PEREZ.

No. 41277.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 8, 1968.

Murray J. Howze, Monahans, for petitioner.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order in a habeas corpus proceeding refusing appellant bail after indictment for murder with malice of his wife.

The Constitution of this State provides that all prisoners are entitled to bail except in capital cases, when the "proof is evident." Art. I, Section 11.

"The term `proof is evident' means the accused, with cool and deliberate mind and formed…