Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

In article <fuo9l1$qah$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Tim McDaniel) wrote:

> In article <ddfr-964C62.12083123042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> David Friedman  <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Do you know of any actual cases, in Texas or elsewhere, of someone
> >being convicted of statutory rape for *** with his wife, where they
> >had been legally married in another state? It seems like a very odd
> >situation.
> 
> As a possible time-saver to anyone else using Google:
> <http://www.postcardsforyou.com/****rnashville.html>
includes 'Lefty
> Frizzle, at age 19, wrote "I Love You 1000 Ways," while in jail for
> statutory rape of his wife.'.  But all other sites say that his (use)
> name was Lefty Frizzell, and
>
<http://www.oldstatehouse.com/exhibits/arkansas-music-history/bio.asp?a=501&g=
> 5>
> says "In 1945, he married Alice Harper ... After serving a six-month
> term for statutory rape in 1947-48 ...".  So I'm inclined to think
> that the ****rnashville page is incorrect.

That's interesting but odd, since he seems to have been charged with 
statutory rape two years after his marriage. Most of the pages I've 
found that mention his jail sentence don't say anything about the 
statutory rape being of his wife--at least one mentions a story, 
apparently of dubious accuracy, that he wrote a song while in jail as an 
apology to his wife, which would suggest that the statutory rape was of 
someone else.

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