Knot Evidence Not Used Why Not?

Galveston News, Nov. 3, 1943 page 2

Early on in the +Dr. Roy Hunt murder investigation was the claim that the Texas Rangers early on linked Jim Thomas to the case because of the type knots used on the cords and ropes on the bodies compared with the knots used on the Lenro Keaton couple in nearby Lubbock a couple of years before the Hunt murder. These observations did not come into to trial evidence by the prosecution. The knot theories are another interesting aspect of the circumstantial case against +James C. Thomas. Read all about the cases, the evidence, and the trials in Clovis Road.