Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials

by Bill Neal

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In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worth's finest hotel, a young man kills an old gentleman in cold blood in the middle of the lobby. The verdict in both of these murderers' trials? Not guilty. The explanation? "This is Texas." Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justice relied less...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0896726517

ISBN13:9780896726512

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:Texas Tech University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

History Law Legal History Murder & Mayhem State & Local True Accounts True Crime

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