John Denson
Appearances
Criminal
The Reverend
So his brother, John Columbus Maxwell, was found in an unconscious, highly intoxicated condition of .41, which is deadly. I mean, .08 is the level. And people said there's no way the man could have drunk that much by himself. He would have passed out. So the suspicion was that he'd been forced, the whiskey had been forced down him.
Criminal
The Reverend
And I told her to, well, I told the jury before on the opening statement that you're going to have a preacher here. And don't let that affect your ability to find him guilty of murder because he was preaching on Sunday and killing on Monday.
Criminal
The Reverend
So I put her on and I told her to tell the jury her name. And she said, I'm Mrs. Maxwell. And I said, Ms. Anderson, you've changed your name. And she said, yes. I said, well, Wendy, who are you married to? She said, I'm married to the reverend. I said, you married Reverend Maxwell? When was that? And she told me a date. I said, what happened to your husband? Well, he died suddenly.
Criminal
The Reverend
And I said, well, all right, will you tell the jury what you saw on the night of so-and-so? And she said, no, I refuse to testify against my husband. So that was my case, and I had no witness really to refute his testimony, so it was undisputed testimony for the jury that he was not at the scene of the murder.