Re: Horse stealing a felony in Prop. 6?

[Lynne Glazer <lglazer@cyberg8t.com>]

That reminds me of a Texas saying as a correlary to the "Texas defense"
("Your honor...he NEEDED killing")

Why does Texas still have the death penalty for cattle rustlers?

Have you ever met cattle who NEEDED rustling?

Lynne
and Rem-member Me
SoCal

>I vaguely recall having heard that the old statute specifying horse
>stealing as a "hanging offense" is still on the books in California.
>
>This may be an apocryphal story though.
>
>kat
>Orange County, Calif.