Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style by Bill Neal

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

American Liberty and Justice

Bill Neal

356 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology true crime emotional reflective medium-paced
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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 su...

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