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Her Own Law
Her Own Law
Her Own Law
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Delaware Huggins, mild-mannered, under-educated, and draft-exempt, leaves his Georgia home, hoping to find work in a shipyard during World War II; but before he can reach the coast, he finds himself coerced into marrying a headstrong, newly minted widow a few years his senior, Tweeve Cumbee. Several months into his marriage, a part-time job at a second-rate movie house results in his being charged with the Saturday night murders of the theater manager and its ticket seller.
At Tweeve's insistence, Delaware rejects the court's offer of appointed counsel and agrees to permit her to represent him. Even though Tweeve lacks legal training and Delaware's status as an outsider makes the job of defending him before a jury more complicated, she exudes confidence. In her view, lawyers are nothing but sales people anyway. She believes all one need possess to try a court case is sales ability and "walking around sense" and she has plenty of both.
But once the trial begins, Tweeve learns there's a little more to it than that as she battles a skilled prosecutor in Solicitor Kilmann and contends with corrupt police officials, Sheriff Hightower and Detective Lieutenant Motley, and three witnesses of doubtful veracity, Booger Blue, Greasy Pea, and Looney Luster.
Though not a romance, Her Own Law is a love story told in a Southern vernacular reminiscent of the style employed by Mac Hyman in his work No Time for Sergeants. As the tale unfolds, it gives a glimpse of small-town life in the South during the middle nineteen-forties and offers the feel of the "us-against-them" ethic of justice that can arise almost anywhere at any time.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherBert Goolsby
Release dateApr 12, 2011
ISBN9780965401845
Her Own Law
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Bert Goolsby

Bert Goolsby, a former Chief Deputy Attorney General of South Carolina and Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals, has heretofore authored three short-story collections, Five Stockings, Sweet Potato Biscuits, and Humanity, Darling, and published six novels, Finding Roda Anne, The Locusts of Padgett County, The Trials of Lawyer Pratt, Familiar Shadows, Harpers' Joy, and Her Own Law. South Carolina Lawyers Weekly also serialized Harpers' Joy. His short stories "A Presbyterian Cookbook" and "The Fan Dancer" appear in the anthologies On Grandma's Porch and More Sweet Tea, respectively. Marlo Thomas included his piece "Truck No. 15" in her work The Right Words at the Right Time, Volume 2. His nonfiction works include a law book, The South Carolina Tort Claims Act: A Primer and Then Some, and a devotional, 90 Devotions for Lawyers & Judges and Those They Serve. A Citadel graduate with a law degree from the University of South Carolina and an advanced law degree from the University of Virginia, he lives in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife Prue. They have one son, Philip Lane Goolsby, M.D., a family physician who resides in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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