Murder, Honor, and Law: 4 Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction to the Great Depression

by Richard F. Hamm

Book Overview

In 1868 a scion of one of the leading families of Richmond, Virginia, ambushed and killed the city?s most controversial journalist over an article that had dishonored the killer?s family. In 1892 a Democratic politician killed a crusading Danville minister after a dispute at the polls. In 1907 a former judge shot to death the son of the Nelson County sheriff for an alleged rape, and in 1935 an Appalachian schoolteacher stood accused of killing her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922089
• ISBN13: 9780813922089
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher