Ex Parte Rogers
| Decision Date | 13 March 1918 |
| Docket Number | (No. 4967.) |
| Citation | 201 S.W. 1157 |
| Parties | Ex parte ROGERS. |
| Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
Appeal from District Court, El Paso County; W. D. Howe, Judge.
Habeas corpus proceedings by Pearl Rogers, indicted for statutory rape. From judgment fixing bail, she appeals. Reversed, and amount of bail reduced.
P. E. Gardner and Jackson, Isaacks & Lessing, all of El Paso, for appellant. E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
The relator was the keeper of a house of prostitution. One of the inmates of the house was a girl under 15 years of age. She appears to have been a prostitute in Mexico and had come to the relator's house at the instance of her sister and to have continued her vocation while there with relator's knowledge and at her instance. Based on the facts thus briefly summarized, relator was indicted for statutory rape in three cases. She was ordered released on bail in the sum of $10,000 in one case and $5,000 in each of the others.
Her appeal is based on the proposition that the facts do not show she was a principal. The merits of a case involving the guilt or innocence of an accused is not a proper subject of inquiry in a writ of habeas corpus. Ex parte Windsor, 78 S. W. 510; Ex parte Adams, 90 S. W. 24; Ex parte Kent, 49 Tex. Cr. R. 12, 90 S. W. 168; Ex parte Jennings, 76 Tex. Cr. R. 116, 172 S. W. 1143; Ex parte McKay, 199 S. W. 637.
We think, considering the facts of the case, that the amount of the bail should be reduced. It is accordingly ordered that the judgment of the lower court fixing the bail at the amounts stated be reversed, and the amount be reduced in each case to the sum of $3,000.
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