Man gets 45 days in jail, probation in Kroger theft
By Robin Y. Richardson, Marshall News Messenger
Thursday, January 28, 2010
James Roberson, 25, was given deferred adjudication for eight years, required to pay a fine of $3,500, sentenced to 45 days in jail and ordered to pay restitution of funds stolen during a 2008 robbery.
His accomplice, Desmond Jackson, in the Jan. 9, 2008, robbery at Kroger Grocery Store is now serving a life without parole sentence for capital murder in Gregg County. He was convicted of murdering a man in a separate incident at Cash America Pawn in Longview.
"There's nothing right about what you and Mr. Jackson did," 71st District Judge William Hughey told Roberson, who was a manager at Kroger during the crime.
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