Don Yarbrough

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Don Yarbrough served as a justice on the Texas Supreme Court.

Yarbrough ran for the Texas Supreme Court in 1976 claiming that God wanted him to run for that office. Yarbrough defeated a well-respected judge in the Democratic Party primary mainly because most voters confused him with either Don Yarborough (who had run for Governor before) or Senator Ralph Yarborough.

Yarbrough's term in the Supreme Court involved various scandals, such as being indicted for forging an auto registration and lying to a grand jury. Yarbrough resigned from the Texas Supreme Court in July 1977. He was convicted of lying to the grand jury in January 1978 and he fled with his family to Grenada in 1981. Grenada refused to extradite Yarbrough and Yarbrough went to medical school. But while he was visiting St. Thomas in 1983 to monitor some classes, he was arrested by U.S. consular officials. Yarbrough was sentenced to six years in federal prison in 1986 for bribery.

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