The Mystery of George Long

Wood believed he had found his man. George Long was a drifter in love and Lucina Broadwell had lost patience with him. The point of a trial was to find a way for God to reveal someone's guilt. These tests were called trials by ordeal. In the age of mystery, no one could know, could truly know, the guilt of another person. Only God could know. But that year Magna Carta established the right to a trial by jury.

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