An unusual verdict was returned Friday in Superior Court in session here this week when Homer Furr and Willie Heglar, two white boys of 20 years of age, were found guilty of highway robbery. No sentence has been passed yet by Judge T.J. Shaw.
The mere fact that the two boys were convicted is said by court officials to be unusual. A case of highway robbery is one of the hardest cases on the docket to convict since the only evidence which can be used is that of the person robbed.
The incident which was being tried occurred on the Saturday before Easter. O.L. Tucker, lumber dealer from the lower part of the county, was in Concord on that date and while here was given a check for $490 by the Cannon Lumber Co. After receiving the check, he went, according to his testimony in the trial, to a local café where he was approached by Furr and Heglar and asked about buying some liquor.
After partaking of a sample, he told the two boys that he would buy a pint as soon as he cashed his check and then went and secured his money, accompanied by Furr. He purchased the pint, he said, and then three of them left Concord and rode a short distance from the city to a place where they left the automobile and went into the woods to finish drinking the liquor.
While in this place of concealment, declared Tucker, he was attacked and was relieved of his money by Furr and Heglar and held there until dark, when he was released.
The two boys testified that they did not rob Tucker but that he was in such an advanced stage of intoxication, they took his money away from him in order to take care of it for him.
Attorneys for the state were Frank Armfield, H.S. Williams and Solicitor Zeb Long. Attorneys for the defense were Hartsell and Hartsell, T.D. Maness, M.B. Sherrin and Buford Blackwelder.
From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, April 25, 1925
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