Rawhide (TV Series)

Judgment at Hondo Seco (1961)

Ralph Bellamy: Judge Quince

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• Judge Quince : Men who abide by the Law don't need mercy. And the other don't deserve it.

  Jim Quince : But Matt, a man can make a mistake.

  Judge Quince : And I do my best to make sure he has no chance to repeat it.

• Judge Quince : Geraniums, small, delicate things. They'll grow in Texas but I almost feel like they don't really belong here.

• Judge Quince : I don't know if I'll ever be able to sleep again, Jim. But I'm going to pass sentence on you, the same sentence I'd pass any man standing before me charged as you are charged. The prisoner is sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead. Sherrif, remove the prisoner and prepare to execute the sentence of this court as soon as possible.

• Brad Lyons : I pulled the trigger, Judge Quince. You fired the gun. If you hadn't sent that man after me.

  Judge Quince : You're stealing my daughter from me.

  Brad Lyons : I was going away with the woman I love. The woman who loved me.

  Judge Quince : You're a gambler, a saloon keeper. You live off people's weaknesses. My daughter's mother.

  Brad Lyons : You haven't answered my question, Judge Quince. Who's the murderer?

• Jim Quince : The letter of the law kills. But the spirit gives life.

  Judge Quince : I read it.

  Jim Quince : Yeah, you read it. But I'm the one who remembered it!

• Judge Quince : The thing I said when I got my first case, you got it a little wrong. It's from the Bible, Second Corinthians, chapter 3, 6th verse. It says: The Letter killeth but the Spirit giveth Life.