Because This Is Texas: An Account of the Sneed-Boyce Feud

A man walks free from two cold-blooded murders, acquitted by a jury of his peers.

"Why?" a reporter asks a juryman.

"Because this is Texas."

Told by a family descendant, this account of the Sneed-Boyce feud is one of a love affair with such enormous heat and passion that it blinded the lovers to any mere commonsense concerns, and of a marriage which ultimately survived adultery.

And those two murders.