{"id":877,"date":"2012-10-19T15:43:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=877"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:36:47","slug":"100-ricos-ranch-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"100. Rico&#8217;s Ranch Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-878\" title=\"SelfDefense05\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense05.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense05-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1ae05c0bfd46089905651' value='6a1ae05c0bfd46089905651'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1ae05c0bfd46089905651' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1ae05c0bfd46089905651' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1ae05c0bfd46089905651' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 15: It Was Either Him or Me <br \/>Self-Defense pg 5: Rico&#8217;s Ranch Hands<\/p>\n<p>Later that night\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Eddie and Arnold have hogtied Rico, and are hauling their heifer back home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>EDDIE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ah, so\u00a0<strong>that&#8217;s<\/strong> how you do it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>STEER<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Don&#8217;t\u00a0<strong>I<\/strong> get any sleep?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>ARNOLD (to Rico)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Now you jest stay put &#8217;til the sheriff comes tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back home, Arnold recognized a few more of the Morgan brothers&#8217; cattle on Rico&#8217;s land.<\/p>\n<p><em>The brothers spot some cows with a circle-M brand<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">ARNOLD [isn&#8217;t that Eddie?]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Pass me another rope, Eddie. We got more cows to rustle back.<\/p>\n<p>Rico&#8217;s ranch hands ran out to stop them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cowboys run out, firing their pistols and rifles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But then\u00a0<strong>Rico<\/strong> did something strange:<\/p>\n<p><em>Rico, still hogtied<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>RICO<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Whoa, boys!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1ae05c0bfd46089905651' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-defenses","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}