Jim Garner, a noted desperado and badman, was hanged at Corpus Christi, Texas on May 15th, 1866 for killing the wrong man.

Jim Garner, known as a bad hombre who was a drunkard and a killer who had killed several men before, shot and killed a fisherman during a saloon argument, and on May 15th, 1866, Garner shot and killed a storekeeper for refusing to sell him a pair of boots on credit. A lynch mob formed of about 50 people with a fifty foot rope and carried the drunken killer down Front Street at Corpus Christi and attempted to hang him from a two - story home, and finally they found a tall branch on a mesquite tree that would do it. As they carried the gunslinger down the street, he kept saying "Give me a trial boys, give me a trial!", but he had a reputation as a killer, so they decided to hang him, and later one man even said that the badman must have struggled because as a boy when he witnessed the lynching, he kept having nightmares about the killer's tongue hanging out.

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