I loved the trial scene.
It got a little zany…almost Family Guy-ish in nature.
Smelly Jack was funny as he makes his defense.
And Judge Sampson – I wanted to really build it up that the Buchanan Boys were hated and despised across the country and now that they’d been caught, he was going to hang him high, thus making it a surprise that they avoid the gallows.
The villain of the story, Henry Alan Blythe, makes his first appearance. I’d like to work on that a little more, though he gets more of an intro in the next chapter.
The courtroom buzzed as the Right Honorable Mortdecai Sampson took his seat. Bald with the exception of the white hair that grew out of his ears like unruly haystacks. Ugly teeth. A perpetually angry face. And a pair of wire rimmed spectacles he was always using to look down over his crooked nose at people with.
The Judge slammed his gavel down with enough force to crack a walnut. “ORDER!”
Everyone went silent. Smelly Jack sat at a small table, to which he was chained. His brother-cousins took up most of the seats. Slade and Gunther stood watch toward the front of the room. Joe and Knox were on either side. As usual, the younger Knoxes were in the back.
“Smelly Jack Buchanan…”
“HANDSOME JACK!”
Sampson pointed his gavel at the defendant. “SHUT UP! Smelly Jack Buchanan, you and your inbred family stand accused of committing a litany of heinous…
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