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Ex Parte Meeks

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Feb 1, 1950
226 S.W.2d 437 (Tex. Crim. App. 1950)

Opinion

No. 24731.

February 1, 1950.

Evidence — Refusing Bail — Justified.

Where facts showed that, after some kind of a difficulty with some Mexicans, relators went armed, one with a pistol and one with a shotgun, into the tent of deceased and his wife, located about a mile from the scene of the difficulty, and there shot and killed deceased, the order of the trial judge in refusing bail was justified.

Habeas Corpus Proceedings. Appeal from district court of Hudspeth County.

Hon. W. D. Howe, Judge Presiding.

Affirmed.

Fryer Milstead, El Paso, for petitioner.

William E. Clayton, District Attorney, El Paso, and George P. Blackburn, State's Attorney, Austin, for the state.


Relators were both charged with the unlawful killing of one, Enrique Tercero, a carpenter; and upon the hearing and granting of a writ of habeas corpus before the late lamented Judge W. D. Howe, they were both refused bail and were remanded to the custody of the sheriff.

The facts presented by the state show that these men, after some kind of a difficulty with some Mexicans at a town called Dell City in Hudspeth County, each relator being armed, one with a pistol and one with a shotgun, entered the tent house in which the deceased and his wife were living on a ranch about a mile from such town. Several shots were fired by them, and the body of the deceased was soon found with two fatal wounds thereon, one from a bullet and another from a shotgun, either wound being fatal.

No testimony was offered by the relators.

We think the testimony here shown justified the careful trial judge in refusing bail.

The judgment is accordingly affirmed.


Summaries of

Ex Parte Meeks

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Feb 1, 1950
226 S.W.2d 437 (Tex. Crim. App. 1950)
Case details for

Ex Parte Meeks

Case Details

Full title:Ex parte MEEKS et al

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Date published: Feb 1, 1950

Citations

226 S.W.2d 437 (Tex. Crim. App. 1950)
226 S.W.2d 437