Ex parte Davis

Ex parte Davis
1915 OK CR 200
151 P. 1018
12 Okl.Cr. 48
Case Number: No. A-2562
Decided: 11/01/1915
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

In the matter of the application of John Davis, for an order reducing bail.

T.L. Brown and Woodson E. Norvill, for petitioner.

Wm. M. Hall, Co. Atty. of Rogers Co., for respondent.

PER CURIAM. The petition, filed in this court on behalf of John Davis represents that he is unlawfully restrained of his liberty and confined in the county jail of Rogers county, by the sheriff of said county, on a charge of having murdered one Leslie C. Wolfinberger in said county on May 28, 1915. That he was placed on trial in the District Court of said county on September 21st, which trial resulted in a disagreement of the jury, at which time the trial judge ordered that petitioner be admitted to bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars. On October 22nd, said district judge, upon an hearing had for that purpose, declined to reduce the amount of said bail.