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Tape recordings spinhot fuss inBRECKENRIDGE, Tex.lt;AP) — Long and heated legal arguments over a tape recording were heard during the final day of prosecution testimony at the theft trial of AdamS. Nacol.Jurors listened to a half-hour tape recording involving the defendant Thursday before the state rested its case agains Nacol. the alleged fence in a major Wichita Falls burglary ring He has been aquitted of twoprevious theft chargres in a trial at Huntsville.Nacol is being tried on a charge of theft over $200 aNacol trialburglary at a Waurika. Okla., store.Tommy Johnson, a criminal intelliegence. officer with the Texas Department of Public Safety, made the recording The tape contained conversation between Nacol and Paul McLain, owner of McLain's Furniture and home center in Waurika, last Dec 15 when they confronted each other in front of NacoTs Wichita Falls jewelry store McLain testified earlier that Nacol had given him $2,500 worth of merchandise after McLain showed him two rings purchased at Nacol’s store at Burk-burnett. McLain said he believed the rings were taken during a burglary of the Waurika store in 1975 The recording was played twice, once without the jury in the courtroom and again with it present. The tape triggered heated exchanges between defense and prosecution lawyers James F Lebus, who is the so-called fingerman in the “country club capers’* burglary ring, testified against Nacol earlier in the trial.
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Big Spring Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Fri, Mar 25, 1977
Page 7
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