The Woman on the Jury

The Woman on the Jury

1924 · 70 min · ★ 9.0 · Drama

The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her...and of a woman on the jury who refused to condemn her when eleven men had voted guilty...a woman brave enough to defy public opinion, brave enough to lose the loss of the love of her husband by baring her soul to the world in order to save the girl on trial.

Directed by Harry O. Hoyt

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