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100 1 $aNeal, Bill,$d1936-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006012124
245 10 $aSex, murder & the unwritten law :$bgender and judicial mayhem, Texas style /$cBill Neal ; foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken.
246 18 $aSex, murder, and the unwritten law
260 $aLubbock, Tex. :$bTexas Tech University Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axvi, 280 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aAmerican liberty & justice
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tSex and the Law, Both Written and Unwritten --$g1.$tJohn Hallum Tried for Shooting a Preacher: Defends Himself in an Irate Community --$g2.$tThe Seduction of Verna Ware: The 1909 Gatesville Courthouse Massacre --$g3.$tMiss Winnie's Revenge: The Family Murder --$g4.$tA Valentine's Day Tragedy: The Boy from the Wrong Side of the Tracks --$g5.$tThe Cursed Fortune - Part One: Floyd Holmes and Warren Wagner --$g6.$tThe Cursed Fortune - Part Two: Priscilla and Cullen Davis --$tAfterthoughts: Some Reflections on Frontier Law, Written and Unwritten.
520 1 $a"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 kill. And in all the resulting trials, the defense relied at least in part on "unwritten law."" "From the 1880s until after World War I, formal penal code seemed insufficiently stringent to southerners demanding redress for sexual impropriety. "Unwritten law" seemed to justify the killing - or at least maiming - of almost anyone who by actual physical contact or inappropriate comment offended southern notions of female virtue, male honor, or sanctity of marriage." "In this third book drawn from the legal annals of the American frontier, attorney Bill Neal explores the imaginative machinations of defense lawyers who outmaneuvered prosecutors and judges to extricate their obviously guilty clients."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aTrials (Murder)$zTexas.
650 0 $aSex crimes$zTexas.
650 0 $aSex discrimination in criminal justice administration$zTexas.
650 0 $aSex and law$zTexas$xInterpretation and construction.
830 0 $aAmerican liberty & justice.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009121852
852 00 $bglx$hKF221.M8$iN433 2009