Title: Sex, murder, and the unwritten law
Subtitle: courting judicial Mayhem, Texas style
First published: 2009
Description: "Six Texas trials from 1896 to 1968 illuminate how "unwritten law" permitted violence toward offenders of Southern notions of female virtue, male honor, or sanctity of marriage. Explores the maneuvers of defense lawyers who managed to extricate guilty clients when there appeared no legal basis for a defense"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Trials (Murder), Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration, Sex and law, Gender and politics, Sex crimes, Interpretation and construction, Trials (murder), Sex crimes, united states, Law, texas, Trials
Places: Texas
LC classification: KF221.M8 N433 2009