Title: Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier
Description: "Longtime Texas prosecutor and defense attorney mines trial records and other primary sources to analyze murder trials from 1880 through WWI in West Texas and Oklahoma. Addresses not only legal and illegal ploys but also inherent pitfalls for a nascent criminal justice system in a frontier society. Historical photographs"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Trials (Murder), Administration of Criminal justice, Sources, History, Frontier and pioneer life, Criminal justice, administration of, Frontier and pioneer life, texas