Ex parte Miller
Ex parte Miller
Opinion of the Court
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of Smith County denying bail in a' rape case.
Appellant, the father of the girl, made a voluntary statement which was offered in evidence at the hearing.
He therein admitted having sexual relations with the daughter on a number of occasions, with her consent, and stated that she had had intercourse with some other man before he had intercourse with her.
It was shown that the prosecutrix first reported the affair shortly before the filing of the charge.
■ Under the meager record before us, we are constrained to conclude that the trial court erred in denying bail.
The judgment is reversed and bail is granted in the sum of $5,000.
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