Local lawyers and judges took their talents to the stage last month as a part of the Bastrop County Bar Association’s annual theatrical fundraiser. The Cedar Creek Shootout: State of Texas vs. Orange W. Wicks was a historically accurate three-act play based on an 1889 murder case, in which the first black justice of the … Continue Reading
Bastrop County judges and lawyers stepped out of their courtroom element and onto the stage to raise scholarship money for local students. In the play, A Trial That Never Was: The Shooting of Richard Armstrong Shirley, the litigators—joined by local actors—tried the 1882 case of a Bastrop man who shot and killed the much-older suitor … Continue Reading
The Bastrop County Bar Association will revisit the case next month as part of "The State of Texas v. Jeff Fitzpatrick: An 1883 Murder Trial in Three Historically Accurate Acts."… Continue Reading
