You can never leave home again, DJ.
Kat has informed me that it's legal in Texas for a man to kill his adulterous wife and the cuckold too. In theory, they'd have to be in flagrante delicto, but it can extend to cold-blooded premeditated murder if he knows the cheating is happening.
I can't quite believe this--I can believe it used to be the case, but she cited something as recently as 1974 about a man who trapped his wife and best friend, shot him, beat her, and wasn't indicted (at least on the murder).
Wha? How? Shouldn't there be some sort of outrage somewhere?
I'm hoping that the law has changed since then, and that's why it's news to me.
It has changed but fairly recently, and only when they discovered that it would have to apply to a man cheating on his wife.
ETA:
You can never leave home again, DJ
Right!?! Actually the calls were on my cell, but because in-laws are up in some beautiful hills in the middle of nowhere, where you can actually hear nature and see the stars and see deer and foxes and bunnies, I don't have service up there. Also, my diamond shoes are too tight.
And terribly jealous of your imbibing with Izzard
Thank DOG. I'd hoped a Texan would be in the house who knew.
Ahem. NOT a Texan. I just live here. When I make my millions I'm going back home.
Sorry. You're no more Texan than I am Californian, although I'm okay with being described as such. It's American that's wrong.
I think the reason I don't like being called a Texan is strictly because I'm from Louisiana. I mean, I don't think it would bother me as much if I were from Rhode Island or something. It has to do with North Louisiana Cowboys fans, Galveston Mardi Gras, Pappadeaux "cajun" food, and the gulf. It's hard to explain.
I don't think it makes the murder legal; it's a mitigation of the crime. So you might be guilty of manslaughter, not murder. Not punishing a premeditated capital crime on a provocation theory sounds dubious to me, but I can't rule it out.
Don't forget this is Texas where we just passed a law to make it double double no takebacks illegal for anyone to have anything even resembling a marriage unless you're a man marrying a woman, or vice versa.
bon bon, it makes it, or at least did as late as 1974, a justifiable homicide.
