Roy Bean
Roy Bean
Phantly Roy Bean, Jr.was an eccentric U.S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande on a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas. After his death, Western films and books cast him as a hanging judge, although he is known to have sentenced only two men to hang, one of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
CountryUnited States of America
above good heaven high men peers tried twelve
You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.
american-judge
I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.
fellow
Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.
american-judge brown golden harvest hills
And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.
american-judge finally land
And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
trying firsts ems
Hang 'em first, try 'em later.
winter land wind
And finally Winter, with its bitin', and whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
sweet spring flower
Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale.
funny humor weapons
I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40.
cowboy coyotes doe
A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the flies and coyotes
comes-and-goes seasons
Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
cowboy bothering-you interfere
Don't interfere with something that ain't bothering' you none.
men cowboy cowboy-wisdom
You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.