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JOE CARROLL AWAITS VERDICT| PALESTINE. July 30.— lt;UP —1 Joe Carroll, 24 - year - old Athens i youth, was convicted on a charge I of taking part in the $11,(100 robbery of the First State bank at Frankston Pec. 10 and waa sentenced to 25 years in prison by a jury here today.The verdict was returned today after the jury had deliberated several hours yesterday.holAtrc1ptitlflt;flt;oChiiPvt(tl•lt;1.a1lt;PALESTINE. July 50. — (UP) — Joel Carroll. 24-year-old suspected hank bandit, today awaited the verdict of a jury on charges of taking part In the $11,000 robbery of the First State bank at Frankston on Dec. 10.The jury retired last night after deliberating three hours and 45. ] minutes without reaching a verdict. Members of the jury had been qualified on the death penalty, and prosecuting attorneys pleaded* for the maximum penalty — death — in their arguments yesterday.Taking the witness stand in his own defense. Carroll denied having been in Frankston at the time of the robbery. He declared he was in Fort Worth. Testimony offriends upheld his alibi.Three others are charged with robbery with firearius in the raid on the bank at Frarikston. a tomato raising ceatar j 30 miiea from here. Others aceiUa'-d as J. O. Xllg,Jack Wilson an VD^am tyiiaa,*
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Taylor Daily Press
Taylor, Texas, US
Thu, Jul 30, 1931
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