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Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style (American Liberty and Justice)
Sex Murder and the Unwritten Law Courting Judicial Mayhem Texas Style - American Liberty and Justice
Author: Bill Neal, foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken
From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed insufficiently stringent to southerners, who often sought other redress. ''Unwritten law'' seemed to justify the killing or at least maiming of almost anyone who by actual physical contact or i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780896726628
ISBN-10: 0896726622
Publication Date: 9/1/2009
Pages: 356
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Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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