Jury Selection Continues in Upshur County Murder Trial
Posted/updated on: August 15, 2012 at 11:03 am
GILMER — Jury selection continues in the case of an Ore City woman charged with murdering her husband. Upshur County D.A. Billy Byrd tells KETK the trial for Sharon Maxwell, 44, is set to begin next Monday. Maxwell was charged with murder of Gordon Maxwell, 46. She was indicted in the case last November.
He was found dead August 30th of last year after authorities responded to a vehicle fire at a home on State Highway 155, just north of the Ore City limits. Investigators found a body in the vehicle after the fire was extinguished. Officials, at the time, described the condition of the body as “suspicious in nature.” According to an autopsy issued by the Southwest Forensic Center in Dallas, Gordon Maxwell died from multiple gunshot wounds.
