Sex, Murder, & the Unwritten Law: Gender and Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style Hardcover - 2009
by Bill Neal; Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken
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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 insufficiently stringent to southerners, who often sought other redress. "Unwritten law" seemed to justify the killingor at least maimingof almost anyone who by actual physical contact or inappropriate comment offended southern notions of female virtue, male honor, or sanctity of marriage.
Illicit sex is the catalyst in all the Texas murder trials recounted in Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law. 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.
Bill Neal explores the imaginative machinations of defense lawyers who extricated obviously guilty clients when there appeared no legal basis upon which to peg a defense. Typically defense attorneys outmaneuvered prosecutors and judges, whose efforts to rein in excesses met with little success. These courtroom triumphs and underlying strategies are remarkable to lawyers, historians, and laypersons alike.Details
- Title Sex, Murder, & the Unwritten Law: Gender and Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style
- Author Bill Neal; Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 356
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas
- Date 2009-09-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780896726628 / 0896726622
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.1 in (24.13 x 16.51 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Library of Congress subjects Trials (Murder) - Texas, Sex crimes - Texas
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009015357
- Dewey Decimal Code 345.764
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2009, Page 183
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