Even in 1893 lawmen were killed and the killers were able to walk away
TOPICS: Andrew Valls Benavides Clemente Reyna Duval County Texas E.A. Glover Hayes Dix POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM JANUARY 12, 2016 On Feb. 6, 1893, two men at a Benavides bar got into a disagreement and were about to start swinging when a newly elected constable stepped in to stop the fight. The constable, who was an amputee, with only one arm was pushed back by one of the two men and the lawmen drew his pistol but was shot and killed by a bystander . Nobody served time in jail as the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas reversed the conviction in a lower court, ruling that the lower court failed to instruct the jury that the fatal shots could have been in self defense. Now let us visit the story as closely as possible given the scarcity of available historical records. The Corpus Christi Caller would have been the newspaper of record for this type of incident but most issues from 1891-1898 are missing due to a fire. Clemente Reyna was elected constable for Duval Count...