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After deliberating less than one hour in the Rappahannock County Circuit Court, the message was loud arid clear as the jury came back with a 30-year sentence for Joel “Puddin” Marshall in the Dec. 14, 2003 shooting death of Roy Frazier.
“I commend the jury for the time and attention they spent on this case,” said Luke. “They deserve credit for a job well done.”
The verdict came after the jury heard the account of Marshall’s life as the defendant recalled his youth.
Born in Caroline County Va., Marshall grew up the second son of a “farmer, logger and moon-shining bootlegger”.
Marshall told the jury that he took his first drink of moonshine at the age of eight, which began a life of on-again, off-again drinking binges for the defendant who had been found guilty of second degree murder just moments earlier.
In the first sign of emotion from Marshall throughout the three-day trial, he recounted how he and his mother had a very close relationship.
That relationship ended abruptly on Dec. 1, 1967 when police found her dead, the result of a gunshot wound inflicted by Marshall’s father, who later turned the gun on himself, ending his own life.
Marshall went on to marry his “childhood sweetheart,” a marriage that ended in divorce after his return from two years active duty in Vietnam.
In cross-examination, Luke pointed out that Marshall had left out parts of the story — parts that told of his felony convictions.
The convictions began in 1967, just two weeks before the death of Marshall’s parents with the unauthorized Use of a motor vehicle.
See TRIAL, Page A2
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