Ex Parte Taylor
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from tbe District Court of Sbelby. Tried below before Hon. Dbtjby Field, Special Judge. On tbe 16tb day of June, 1894, appellant killed one Jim Williams, in tbe village of Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas, by shooting him twice with a double-barrel shotgun.
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Appeal from tbe District Court of Sbelby. Tried below before Hon. Dbtjby Field, Special Judge. On tbe 16tb day of June, 1894, appellant killed one Jim Williams, in tbe village of Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas, by shooting him twice with a double-barrel shotgun. He was indicted for said murder by tbe grand jury of Sbelby County on tbe 13th day of July, 1894, and on tbe 14th of July be applied to tbe Hon. Drury Field, special judge presiding, for a writ of babeas corpus, wbicb, being granted, was beard by said judge on tbe 20th of August, and bail refused. Tbe evidence, as to its important…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
Appellant was indicted for the murder of one J. M. Williams, in Shelby County, and filed his petition for bail before the Hon. Drury Field, Special Judge. This is an appeal from ■the refusal of said special judge to grant bail as prayed for.
Appellant contends that he is entitled to bail upon the proposition that he had established by proof that threats were made by the deceased against his life, which threats he had good reason to believe would be carried into execution. Such proof, if not available as justification of the homicide, would certainly extenuate it, even though…
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