What is the main point?A response to the text? RODRIGUEZ, JOSEFA [CHIPITA] (unknown-1863). Josefa (Chipita) Rodríguezwas for many years considered to be the only woman legally hanged in Texas. Most of herstory verges on legend; facts surrounding her arrest, trial, and execution are scant, andmany aspects of her story, including the name Josefa, cannot be verified. She is believed tohave been the daughter of Pedro Rodríguez, who is said to have fled from Antonio Lópezde Santa Anna. Chipita moved with her father to San Patricio de Hibernia, Texas, whilequite young, and for many years after Rodríguez's death furnished travelers with mealsand a cot on the porch of her lean-to shack on the Nueces River. When Cotton Roadtraveler John Savage was murdered with an ax, presumably for the $600 in gold which hehad been carrying, Chipita was accused of robbery and murder. Recovery of the gold fromthe Nueces River north of San Patricio, where Savage's body was found in a burlap bag,raised substantial doubt about the motive for the crime, but Josefa Rodríguez and JuanSilvera (who sources suggest may have been her son) were indicted on circumstantialevidence and tried before Fourteenth District Court judge Benjamin F. Neal at SanPatricio. After Chipita pleaded not guilty, the jury recommended mercy, but Neal orderedher executed on November 13, 1863. For some time she was held at sheriff WilliamMeans's home in Meansville, where two attempts by a lynching mob were thwarted.According to legend, Chipita was kept in leg irons and chained to a wall in the courthouse.There, local children brought her candy and shucks to make cigarettes. At the time, shewas described as "very old" or "about ninety," but was probably in her sixties.The court records, except for a week of transcripts, were burned in a courthouse fire orlost in a flood, and many discrepancies exist in trial accounts. From these it has beendetermined that no list of qualified jurors existed, but the sheriff, instructed as juryforeman to produce "at least twenty qualified men," produced closer to thirty; at leastthree members of the grand jury also served on the trial jury; the foreman of the grandjury was the sheriff who arrested her; members of both juries had been indicted on felonycharges; Chipita had little in the way of defense counsel, and her sole defense was thewords "not guilty." There was no appeal or motion in arrest of judgment, and though sometalk of a retrial may have occurred, none took place. Lore says that resident KateMcCumber drove off hangman John Gilpin when he came for her wagon to transportChipita to the hanging tree. At least one witness to the hanging claimed he later heard amoan from the coffin, which was placed in an unmarked grave. Many tales have arisen asa result of the trial and the hanging, one of which claims that Chipita was protecting herillegitimate son. Other sources indicate she may have been involved in gatheringinformation to influence the state's decision about which side to take in the Civil War andwas framed as a political act. Her ghost is said to haunt the area, especially when a womanis sentenced to be executed. She is pictured as a specter with a noose around her neck,wailing from the river bottoms. She has been the subject of two operas, numerous books,newspaper articles, and magazine accounts.In 1985 state senator Carlos Truan of Corpus Christi asked the Texas legislature to absolveChipita Rodríguez of murder. The Sixty-ninth legislature passed the resolution, and it wassigned by Governor Mark White on June 13, 1985.Jane Elkins, a slave convicted of murder, was hanged on May 27, 1853, in Dallas. She wasthe first woman legally hanged in the state.

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What is the main point?A response to the text? RODRIGUEZ, JOSEFA [CHIPITA] (unknown-1863). Josefa (Chipita) Rodríguezwas for many years considered to be the only woman legally hanged in Texas. Most of herstory verges on legend; facts surrounding her arrest, trial, and execution are scant, andmany aspects of her story, including the name Josefa, cannot be verified. She is believed tohave been the daughter of Pedro Rodríguez, who is said to have fled from Antonio Lópezde Santa Anna. Chipita moved with her father to San Patricio de Hibernia, Texas, whilequite young, and for many years after Rodríguez's death furnished travelers with mealsand a cot on the porch of her lean-to shack on the Nueces River. When Cotton Roadtraveler John Savage was murdered with an ax, presumably for the $600 in gold which hehad been carrying, Chipita was accused of robbery and murder. Recovery of the gold fromthe Nueces River north of San Patricio, where Savage's body was found in a burlap bag,raised substantial doubt about the motive for the crime, but Josefa Rodríguez and JuanSilvera (who sources suggest may have been her son) were indicted on circumstantialevidence and tried before Fourteenth District Court judge Benjamin F. Neal at SanPatricio. After Chipita pleaded not guilty, the jury recommended mercy, but Neal orderedher executed on November 13, 1863. For some time she was held at sheriff WilliamMeans's home in Meansville, where two attempts by a lynching mob were thwarted.According to legend, Chipita was kept in leg irons and chained to a wall in the courthouse.There, local children brought her candy and shucks to make cigarettes. At the time, shewas described as &#34;very old&#34; or &#34;about ninety,&#34; but was probably in her sixties.The court records, except for a week of transcripts, were burned in a courthouse fire orlost in a flood, and many discrepancies exist in trial accounts. From these it has beendetermined that no list of qualified jurors existed, but the sheriff, instructed as juryforeman to produce &#34;at least twenty qualified men,&#34; produced closer to thirty; at leastthree members of the grand jury also served on the trial jury; the foreman of the grandjury was the sheriff who arrested her; members of both juries had been indicted on felonycharges; Chipita had little in the way of defense counsel, and her sole defense was thewords &#34;not guilty.&#34; There was no appeal or motion in arrest of judgment, and though sometalk of a retrial may have occurred, none took place. Lore says that resident KateMcCumber drove off hangman John Gilpin when he came for her wagon to transportChipita to the hanging tree. At least one witness to the hanging claimed he later heard amoan from the coffin, which was placed in an unmarked grave. Many tales have arisen asa result of the trial and the hanging, one of which claims that Chipita was protecting herillegitimate son. Other sources indicate she may have been involved in gatheringinformation to influence the state's decision about which side to take in the Civil War andwas framed as a political act. Her ghost is said to haunt the area, especially when a womanis sentenced to be executed. She is pictured as a specter with a noose around her neck,wailing from the river bottoms. She has been the subject of two operas, numerous books,newspaper articles, and magazine accounts.In 1985 state senator Carlos Truan of Corpus Christi asked the Texas legislature to absolveChipita Rodríguez of murder. The Sixty-ninth legislature passed the resolution, and it wassigned by Governor Mark White on June 13, 1985.Jane Elkins, a slave convicted of murder, was hanged on May 27, 1853, in Dallas. She wasthe first woman legally hanged in the state.

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