Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings & Celebrated Trials
- ISBN-10
- 0896725790
- ISBN-13
- 9780896725799
- Category
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Author
- Bill Neal
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 cr
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