Ex parte Rickard

Ex parte Rickard
1925 OK CR 131
233 P. 770
29 Okl.Cr. 354
Decided: 03/11/1925
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Petition of Jim Rickard for writ of habeas corpus to be admitted to bail. Writ denied, and cause dismissed.

W.J. Hulsey, and W.N. Redwine, for petitioner.

PER CURIAM. Petition of Jim Rickard for writ of habeas corpus to be admitted to bail, filed in this court November 27, 1923, alleging that he was committed after a preliminary examination, without bail, to answer to the district court of Pittsburg county on a charge of having murdered one Simeon Jefferson; that on habeas corpus proceeding the district judge of said county denied bail and remanded petitioner to the custody of the sheriff.

Petition avers that the proof of his guilt is not evident nor the presumption thereof great. It appears that petitioner did not testify in the examining trial and

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