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Upshur County jury convicts woman of murder

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GILMER/UPSHUR COUNTY (TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH) - Sharon Maxwell was found guilty of murder today by an Upshur County jury. Punishment phase of her trial starts at 9 a.m. Monday. District Attorney Billy Byrd said the jury deliberated about an hour.

Mrs. Maxwell told investigators March 6 that the relative killed her 46-year-old 10th husband, Gordon Lynn Maxwell, at their Ore City-area home Aug. 30. But the tape jurors watched Thursday showed she told Upshur County Fire Marshal Paul Steelman on the day of the slaying that Maxwell put a pistol in her mouth, "tried to kill me," and slammed her down before the gun somehow discharged.

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