[lonestar]

County judges can act as judges...not in criminal cases but if they spend a certain amount of time judging, they even get paid by the state.

I don't remember the details but we had one who was milking it for all it was worth.

[JRandomFreeper]

I wasn't going to try to explain all of that peculiar Texas law to a bunch of Yankees.

Growing up under it, you don't think of it as weird. When you get older and start comparing it to everywhere else....

What other state has a governor that CAN'T pardon criminals without permission from a board?

/johnny