The city is Dallas TX. And the location is the old Dallas County courthouse — the courtroom of District Judge C. A. Pippen. It’s Friday afternoon and five days of rain have given way to mild temperatures for December with highs in the mid-60’s. But in the jury room things aren’t so mild. And the trial of Ray Adams, a central Texas farmer who earlier that fall had gunned down local banker Orville Mathews on the streets of Dallas, over a bet of all things, is about to come to a shocking end. It happened today in Texas.