Hired on the fly to lay down the law in a lawless land, Judge Roy Bean practiced his own brand of justice from behind the bar of a saloon. With a checkered past and no formal education ...

This brings us to one of the most famous men of law Texas has ever produced: Judge Phantley Roy Bean. To refer to Judge Bean as a man of the law is a stretch. His story is worth mentioning ...

Bean did, however, christen his saloon the Jersey Lilly, a misspelling of the actress’s nickname (after her Channel Island birthplace). By the time she visited at last, in 1904, Judge Roy Bean ...

West bought Judge's in 1976 for two reasons, he recalled. It was income-producing property, and it had plenty of space for a traditional Sunday volleyball games with his friends. Judge Roy Bean ...

with no hose. Ah, but the other Langtry is something else entirely: a legendary place not unlike the equally legendary Deadwood or OK Corral, where the much-fabled Judge Roy Bean dispensed "the ...

Many decades ago, Skiles, author of Judge Roy Bean Country, interviewed elderly people who had been Bean's contemporaries during his reign as the self-declared "Law West of the Pecos." ...

In both federal and state courts, it is tantamount to "Law West of the Pecos by Judge Roy Bean." In Bean's court, the law was what he said it was; in 21st century courts that attitude is still too ...

Then there’s Roy Bean, the 19th-century Texas justice of ... and his authority in the region was superseded by a U.S. district court judge even farther west of the Pecos, in El Paso.

Judge Roy Bean, a Western legend frequently referred to as “The Hanging Judge,” was quite an eccentric. While he dispensed his unique “Law West of the Pecos,” it’s uncertain ...

Although Gary Cooper is starred, Walter Brennan commands major attention with a slick characterization of Judge Roy Bean, the dispenser of law at Vinegaroon – west of the Pecos. Supplied with a ...