# Ex Parte Bynum

> Supreme Court of Alabama · March 6, 1975 · 294 Ala. 78

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9688645

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re Ex Parte Hugh Otis BYNUM, Jr., (Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus). Ex Parte Hugh Otis Bynum, Jr.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** March 6, 1975
- **Citations:** 294 Ala. 78; 312 So. 2d 52
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Bloodworth
- **Judges:** Jones, Faulkner, Shores, Heflin, Merrill, Bloodworth, Maddox, Almon, Embry
- **Cited by:** 46 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

BLOODWORTH, Justice.
(Concurring in part and dissenting in part.)
I concur with the majority opinion authored by Justice Jones as to I. — that the pre-Furman classification of “capital cases” are still so classified, allowing bail to *87 be constitutionally denied for those offenses so classified — if “the proof is evident or the presumption great.” As to II.A., I agree with the assumption that the testimony is corroborated if that issue needs to be reached.
I dissent from the holding in II.B.
MERRILL and MADDOX, JJ., concur.

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