"HeyBub" wrote:

javawizard wrote:
You may not legally own a pair of pliers if you live in
Texas.Fortunately, this law is not often enforced. - from
www.odd-info.com

The word "pliers" does not occur in the Texas Penal Code nor the combined
Texas Statutes.

The Texas Penal Code was rewritten (totally, I think) in the 70's. If the law
ever existed, it probably got dropped in the rewrite.

Under the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, however, we do have a defense of
justifiable homicide entitled: "But yer honer, he NEEDED killin' ".

Unfortunately, this got dropped at the same time. When Texas was mostly small
town and rural, if he needed killin', the entire jury pool knew it. They
couldn't have gotten a conviction anyway.

"Homicide, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of
homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and praiseworthy, but it makes no
great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another—the
classification is for the advantage of lawyers."
Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary.



-- Doug