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Moye handed 30 years ; for Shaw robbery role SBy Kandv HradfmnTIMES New* Editor Allen Gerald Moye was found guilty of robbery charges m connection with the theft ofSC.floc fr ni Holiv I.m 1businessman Roy Shaw Friday after a Jury deliberated for two and a half hours before retur mng the verdict and a 30 year prison sentence for the accused The case went to the jury at 3*50 p m , and the jury returned at 6 20 p m mth the decision which relegated Moye to the state penitentiary for the 30 year term Defense attorneys immediately filed notice of appeal in the ease, which went to the jury after the defense rested its case and final arguments were heard Friday afternoonDefense witnesses Friday supported attorneys Thomas A Smith Jr and Hayden RBattles* contention that MoyeWwas at home the day of therobbery , Feb 18After Move's wife Judy said he spent the day at home,Johnny C Netoon, Jasper Rt 8,said be now owns Moye’s homeand was a go-between in allowing William 0 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 i Quinton Rt 21 from 8-8 30 a mthat day The robbery at Shaw's Holly Pond area residence occurred at approximately 9 15a.m.Although Nelson had known Moye for six years. Chambers said he did not meet the defendant until that morning Taking the stand himself, Moye also said he did not leave his home the morning the robbery happened because his wife and one chtk* were ill He maintained* I had nothing to do with the,. lt;bbery and worked the next day and until he was arrested Feb 27 for Drummond Coal Company Moye testified he had seenWShaw on several different occasions” when the Hoolly Pond businessman owned a truck stop out of county several years ago. In his testimony,Shaw said Thursday he had never seen Move before therobberyWShaw identified Moye as the accomplice of John Henry Wade, who has pled guilty to the mine, 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 acknowledged a prior criminal record, Moye had been given a ten-year sentence for armed robbery in Selma in 1950, a two-year grand larcenysentence m Houston in 1954. and „ two years in Denver in 1959 for ristolen car violations fThe defease lawyers maintained Shaw's identification of t the 44-year-old Moye was a case f of mistaken identity lt;In final arguments before the £ nine-man, three woman jury. r Smith said things aren't always as they seem and cast , doubts on several details at Shaw's testimony, saying he | w as mistaken jThe evidence for the state . can be condensed down to one i man’s testimony, that of Roy | Shaw, Smith argued |Bland said the defense at- ](See Kobberv Page 7A1
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Cullman Times Democrat
Cullman, Alabama, US
Sun, May 23, 1976
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