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        "text": "PER CURIAM\nThis is a petition for bail pending retrial of petitioner Harold Sherman Upton following the reversal of his first degree murder conviction, Upton v. State, 254 Ark. 664, 497 S.W. 2d 696. The trial court in refusing bail as in capital offense cases recognized the effect of Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S. Ct. 2726, 33 L. Ed. 2d 346 (1972), on our death penalty statutes, but took the position that Act 438 of 1973 reinstated the death penalty as to felony murder cases committed prior to the effective date thereof. We disagree.\nSince the authorities define an ex post facto law as one that renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when committed, White v. Brown, 468 F. 2d 301 (9th Cir. 1972), it follows that, in view of Graham v. State, 253 Ark. 462, 486 S.W. 2d 678 and Kuehn v. State, 253 Ark. 889, 489 S.W. 2d 505, the capital felony provisions of Act 438 cannot be applied retrospectively to offenses committed prior to its adoption, Ark. Const. Art. 2 \u00a7 17.\nThis matter is referred back to the trial court for the fixing of bail.",
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