[1] At an American Bar Association seminar in New York in the late 1970s,[5] Haynes explained how to plead in the alternative: "Say you sue me because you claim my dog bit you.
As journalist Gary Cartwright declared: "[Trials] are won through careful attention to detail and by hard scientific analysis of situations and evidence.
[6] After receiving an accounting degree from the University of Houston in 1951, he was drafted back into military service, serving in the United States Army as a paratrooper and hand-to-hand combat instructor with the 11th Airborne Division during the Korean War.
His father was a plasterer[1] who struggled financially, so at the age of 2 Haynes was sent to San Antonio to live with his grandmother, where he stayed until he was 8 years old.
Bailey appeared as Haynes in the 1981 film Murder in Texas, which is based in the events arising from the death of Joan Robinson Hill.
Dennis Franz appeared as Haynes in the 1995 film Texas Justice,[11] which is based on the book Blood Will Tell by Gary Cartwright.
[12] One of the tracks on Tom Russell's 2003 album Modern Art, simply entitled Racehorse Haynes, deals with his career.