Originally Posted by Daly & Wilson (1988)

Until 1974, it was the law in Texas (Texas Penal Code 1925, article 1220) that homicide is justifiable, i.e., not a criminal act, and therefore subject to no penalty whatever, “when committed by the husband upon the person of anyone taken in the act of adultery with the wife, providing the killing takes place before the parties to the act of adultery have separated.”