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Texans Dedicate New Courts Building in Historic Ceremony
The Texas high courts opened the granite Courts Building in a double ceremony with the Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals debuting in their new home. Leaders praised the courts as guardians of government by law as judges adopted black robes for the first time.
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Austin
Tex
Texas High Courts
Court of Criminal Appeals
Supreme Court
Texas
Republic
J. E. Hickman
Joe Hd
Winfree
Houston
W.N. Woolsey
Corpus Christi
James 8. Bates
Edinburg
Carl Conley
Raymondville
Ben D. Sudderth
Comanche
Oscar M. Laurel
Laredo
Zeke Zbranek
Cassetta
W. L. Ramsey
Beckville
Jerry Sadler
Palestine
Jimmy Pheips
Angleton
Ted Myatt
Burleson
Bobby Bullock
Hillsboro
Sam Bass
Freeport
State Highway Department
Baw
Highway Department
Will Wilson
Commission
Herbert C. Petry Jr