Ex parte Smith

Ex parte Smith
1916 OK CR 120
158 P. 304
12 Okl.Cr. 621
Case Number: No. A-2813
Decided: 08/07/1916
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Application of Jim Smith for release upon bail by Writ of Habeas Corpus. Bail allowed.

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James H. Mathews, for petitioner.

R. McMillan, Asst. Atty. Gen., A.J. Hardy, County Attorney, and H.H. Brown, of counsel, for the State.

PER CURIAM. This is an application by Jim Smith for a writ of habeas corpus by which he seeks to be let to bail pending the final hearing and determination of a charge of murder filed against him in Carter county, wherein upon his preliminary examination he was held to answer for the murder of one Bob Neighbors, by shooting him with a pistol on the 25th day of July, 1916. Attached to said petition and made a part thereof is a duly certified transcript of the testimony taken upon the preliminary examination; also the affidavit of petitioner alleging that the shooting was accidental.