Hobbs v. Lindsey

This is an appeal from the Noble Circuit Court, wherein the appellant was denied a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant petitioner had been charged with 21 separate indictments for alleged embezzlement from the Noble County Credit Union. The court had set his bond at a total amount of $171,400, a sum which petitioner asserted was both excessive and prohibitive to him. He asked relief by way of habeas corpus in that his bail be reduced to an amount more consistent with both the nature of the offenses and his financial ability. At the Conclusion of appellants evidence the state filed a motion to find for the defendant, which motion was sustained. The error assigned on appeal is the overruling of appellants motion for new trial, one of the grounds therein being the sustaining of the motion to find for the defendant.