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Moye handed 30 yearst$lt;•for Shaw robbery roleR Kandy HendersonTIMES News Fdltnr Allen (ierald Moye was found guilty of robbery eterges in connection with the theft of 137,800 from Holly Pond businessman Roy Shaw Friday after a jury deliberated for two and a half hours before retur mng the verdict and a 10 year prison sentence for the accused.The case went to the Jury at 150pm and the jury returned at 6 Ml p m with the decision which relegated Moye to the state penitentiary for the 30 year term Defense attorneys immediately filed noUce of appeal in the case, which went to the jury after the defense rested its case and final arguments were heard FridayafternoonDefense witnesses Friday supported attorneys Thomas ASmith Jr and Hayden RBattles* contention that Moye was at home the day of the robbery , Feb 16 After Move's wife Judy said he spent the day at home, Johnny C Nelson, Jasper Rt 8, said he now owns Moye’s home and was a go-between in allowing William O Chambers Jasper Rt 5, to look at the house as a prospective buyer Chambers said he went to Moye’s home and was in the Walker County residence (Quinton Rt 2»from 8-8 30 a mshat day The robbery at Shaw’s HoUv Pond area residence occurred at approximately 9 15am.Although Nelson had knownMoye for six years. Chambers said he did not meet the defendant until that morning Taking the stand himself, Moye also said he did not leavehts home the morning therobbery happened because htswife and one child were illHe maintained1 I had nothing to do with the,, ’bbery and worked the next day and until he was arrested Feb 27 for Drummond Coal Company Move testified he had seenMrShaw on several differentoccasions'’ when the Woolly Pond businessman owned a truck stop out of county several years ago, In his testimony, Shaw said Thursday he hid never seen Moye before therobberywShaw identified Moye as the accomplice of John Henry Wade, who has pled guilty to the crime, in his testimony The defendant also stated that although he knew Wade, he did not see him that morning Under cross-examination by District Attorney Julian Bland, Moye acfcnow ledged a prior criminal record Moye had been given a ten-year sentence for armed robbery in Selma in 1950, a two-year grand larcenysentence in Houston in 1954. and two years tn Denver in 1959 for stolen car violations The defense lawyers maintained Shaw's identification of the 44-vear-oid Moye was a case of mistaken identitv In final argumgpLs before the mne-man, three woman jury,Smith said 'things aren't always as the seem' and cast doubts on several details of Shaw's testimony, saying he was mistaken ’ The evidence for the state can be condensed down to one man's testimony, that of Roy Shaw,** Smith argued Bland said the defense at-See Kobberv Page 7A«
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Cullman Times Democrat
Cullman, Alabama, US
Sun, May 23, 1976
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