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Pecos County, TX

May 18, 2008

Tex-Arcana: Aspect of state's frontier justice lives on: Judges without law degrees

“It's an old system in that regard”

Judge Roy Bean may have been the most famous non-lawyer judge in Texas history, and a vestige of his frontier justice is alive and well in modern-day Texas. via MySA.com

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