People v. Griswold

After a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Rock Island County, the defendant, William Ray Griswold, was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than five nor more than twenty-five years. At the trial, five eyewitnesses identified defendant as one of two unmasked men who had robbed a Moline supermarket of $9,600 at about 2:30 p.m. on October 28, 1966. For the defense, six alibi witnesses placed defendant either at his home or in taverns in East Peoria, some one hundred miles from Moline, immediately before, during and after the time the robbery was…