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holding that the defendant's argument regarding denial of bond was rendered moot since the appeal on his criminal charge had been resolved against him
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No. 51402.
July 25, 1979.
Appeal from the Circuit Court, Monroe County, L.T. Senter, Jr., J.
Edmund L. Baugh, Jr., Aberdeen, for appellant.
A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Karen A. Gilfoy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
Before PATTERSON, C.J., and SUGG and WALKER, JJ.
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
After conviction and while appeal was pending in this Court in Cause No. 51,401, Booker T. Langston v. State of Mississippi, 373 So.2d 611, Langston filed a petition for habeas corpus in the trial court alleging that he was effectively denied bond because the amount required for it was excessive. The petition, after hearing, was denied.
The record reveals the petitioner to have been convicted several times previously. Under these facts we are unable to state that the trial court abused its discretion in the sum of bond since the probability of the petitioner absconding is obvious.
More importantly, the issues on habeas corpus are now moot because Langston's appeal on the criminal charge has now been resolved against him.
DISMISSED AS MOOT.
SMITH and ROBERTSON, P. JJ., and SUGG, WALKER, BROOM, LEE, BOWLING and COFER, JJ., concur.