In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:12:38 -0400, micky
wrote:

If someone is a gunfighter and bank robber or a highwayman, and in the
course of robbing banks or holding up stagecoaches, he kills 3 or 4
innocent people, and the Wanted poster for him says Dead or Alive, is it
wrong to shoot him in the back?

It was a secret who killed him but his sons ppointed a gun at the head
of the hotel desk clerk (who had admitted to hearing the shot and
running to the door to see what had happened. The son said, Didn't you
hear shots every night. Why did you run to the door?). So threated to
kill him if he didn't talk. He resisted but finally said it was
Marshall Dillon.

So one of them is calling out Marshall Dillon, and he's telling them
they're making a mistake. Eventually their father admits that he shot
their brother.

I meant wrong, not illegal.