Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style Book

Name: Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Tex
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Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style, From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed much too merciful to suit most southerners, who believed in direct and personal redress of such wrong, Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style

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Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style
Written by author Bill Neal
Published by Texas Tech University Press, September 2009
From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed much too merciful to suit most southerners, who believed in direct and personal redress of such wrong
"Illicit sex is the catalyst in all the Texas murder trials recounted here. In each account the victim, at least in the perception of the defendant, had committed some sexual misconduct. In every case the defendant opened fire with premeditated intent to

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Introduction Sex and the Law, Both Written and Unwritten 3

1 John Hallum Tried for Shooting a Preacher: Defends Himself in an Irate Community 18

2 The Seduction of Verna Ware: The 1909 Gatesville Courthouse Massacre 40

3 Miss Winnie's Revenge: The Family Murder 59

4 A Valentine's Day Tragedy: The Boy from the Wrong Side of the Tracks 84

5 The Cursed Fortune - Part One: Floyd Holmes and Warren Wagner 148

6 The Cursed Fortune - Part Two: Priscilla and Cullen Davis 184

Afterthoughts: Some Reflections on Frontier Law, Written and Unwritten 229

Notes 239

Bibliography 261

Index 271

Title: Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style

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Publication Date: September 2009

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