Ex parte Kendall

Zollars, C. J.:Being charged in an indictment with murder in the first degree, appellants were committed and are held in jail. By a proceeding in habeas corpus, instituted in the court below, they sought to be admitted to bail. Upon the hearing this was refused, and they were remanded into custody. They appeal. The case is before us upon the evidence, and it is our duty, in a case of this kind, to examine and pass upon it. Ex Parte Heffren, 27 Ind. 87; Ex Parte Sutherlin, 56 Ind. 595; Ex Parte Walton, 79 Ind. 600.

An indictment for murder duly returned implies prima facie that the parties…