16 years of waste??
In rural Goliad Texas, the town square hosts the county court house. On one side of the square, there still stands the old oak hanging tree.
The court would make a judgement, the guilty would be taken outside and hanged. Ten minutes max.
No meals, no appeals. You’re guilty, you die.
Life was so much simplier in the late 1800’s!
Life was so much simplier in the late 1800’s!
We need to bring things back as near as possible to that old time justice. Until then, criminals and their lawyers will not fear the power of the people, which must be exercised through the court system. Instead, they will see ordinary people as powerless and the labyrinthine justice system as a game to be 'played'. Plea bargains, phony appeals, bribes and even extortion of jurors are common. Bet they didn't have much of that in the 1800's!
Now I am going to read a Louis L'Amore western I'm in the middle of. It's called Tucker, and describes in accurate detail the western attitudes and practice of justice back then. Thank God for Louis L'Amore!
I inherited about 65 acres of the home-place and have the area that has a hanging tree on it too. It was just to the south of the Old Spanish Trail and now is just off SH 21.