Yarbrough ran for the Texas Supreme Court in 1976 claiming that God wanted him to run for that office.
[1] Yarbrough's election to the Supreme Court was in spite of various scandals, such as being indicted for forging an auto registration and lying to a grand jury.
He was convicted of lying to the grand jury in January 1978 and he fled with his family to Grenada in 1981.
[2][3][4] Grenada refused to extradite Yarbrough and he attended St. George's University School of Medicine (SGUSOM).
However, while attending classes at SGUSOM's campus in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 1983, he was arrested by U.S. consular officials.