Part 8, Note 60

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Seth Shepard McKay, Debates in the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1875 (Austin: University of Texas, 1930), p. 434; Colorado Citizen, October 1, 1874, October 22, 1874; District Court Records of Colorado County, Criminal Cause File No. 1268: State of Texas v. Matt Woodlief, Criminal Cause File No. 1269: State of Texas v. Matt Woodlief, Criminal Cause File No. 1286: State of Texas v. Matt Woodlief, et al., Criminal Cause File No. 1287: State of Texas v. Matt Woodlief, et al., Criminal Cause File No. 1290: State of Texas v. Matt Woodlief, et al., Criminal Cause File No. 1291: State of Texas v. Matt Woodlief, et al., Minute Book F, p. 304. Woodlief got into trouble less than a year later in San Antonio. There, after a brief altercation with police, he was arrested and tried for assault. He was again acquitted, though this time on grounds of insanity. Two years after that, on May 15, 1877, his career, and his life, nearly came to an end, when he was severely wounded by a city marshal in Houston. He was finally killed by a group of lawmen at Lake Charles, Louisiana, on February 12, 1880 (see Colorado Citizen, May 13, 1875, June 3, 1875, May 17, 1877; Larry J. Woods, "Gunfighters and Lawmen: When Drinking Hard, Southeast Texas Gambler Matt Woodlief Often Went Looking for Deadly Relief," Wild West, vol. 18, no. 1, June 2005, pp. 16, 71-73).