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Show Ex-Convict Gets Prison Term for Store Holdup Cecil R. Wright Pleads Guilty and Waives Delay on Sentence Cecil R. Wright, 28, an ex-convict, went back to prison Saturday for a term of five to 20 years. Refusing legal counsel proffered ty the judge, Wright pleaded guilty in district court to robbing the National Dollar store. 245 South ''Main street, on November 13. The prisoner also waived time for pass- ing of sentence. Sullenly Wright answered perfunctory per-functory questions ssked by Judge Herbert "M. Schiller before the jurist jur-ist imposed penalty. Answers to the questions disclosed a long criminal career which took Wright during the last 10 years into several prisons, pris-ons, including the Utah state prison. Lee Humphries. 30. 15 East Malvern Mal-vern avenue, Saturday had been sentenced to a term of six months in the county jail for allegedly stealing steal-ing 41 bundles of shingles November Novem-ber 13 from a building construction scene near 2600 Fifth East street Humphries pleaded guilty in city court when the complaint was reduced re-duced from grand larceny to petty larceny upon motion of the county attorney's office. Lack of evidence to sustain the original charge was given as reason for reducing the offense. of-fense. Lee Matson, 33. of 320 Harvard Har-vard avenue, a codefendant, was discharged by Judge B. P. Leverich for lack of evidence. Stay of execution on commitment for June Burr. IS. and Kenneth Cloward. 20. sentenced to terms of five to 20 years in state prison for robbery, was again extended Saturday Sat-urday by District Judge Herbert M. Schiller. More time for the adult probation department to complete its investigation of the suspects is required, it was announced. Burr and Cloward pleaded guiHy to robbing Kenneth R. Miller of Garfield on September 23. |