Ex parte Starrett

Ex parte Starrett
1925 OK CR 541
240 P. 748
32 Okl.Cr. 246
Decided: 11/10/1925
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Application of one Starrett for a writ of habeas corpus to be admitted to bail. Application denied.

Keller & Cameron, H.H. Brown, Guy Sigler, J.H. Hayes, and Ben F. Williams, for petitioner.

The Attorney General, for the State.

PER CURIAM. Upon the hearing of this petition it

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conclusively appears that the petitioner by the use of firearms killed two persons in the town of Marietta, in Love county, on July 14, 1925. For these homicides the petitioner stands charged with murder in the district court of Love county, and bail has been denied him by that court.

Upon an application for bail after commitment, upon a charge of murder, on the ground that the proof of guilt is not evident nor the presumption thereof great, if upon a consideration of all the evidence offered the court is of the opinion that it is insufficient to create a reasonable doubt of the petitioner's guilt, bail will be refused.