Joseph Cowley

A Jury of His Peers: a Play in Three Acts Joseph Cowley

George Andrews, a textbook salesman in his mid thirties, lives in the suburbs with a lovely wife, two small children who love and adore him, and wonderful friends and neighbors. One day a horrible crime takes place. A young high school girl of fifteen is raped and murdered in the woods adjacent to the school. George was in the school, selling textbooks, at the time the horrible crime took place. Circumstantial evidence points to him as the perpetator. Is he guilty? Friends and neighbors, even his wife. become part of the jury that tries him before the trial in the courtroom takes place. In the end, there are three juries. You, the readers and audience, are the third jury. What is your verdict?