Split Verdict In Moate Trial
by Amanda Jones
Echo News Editor
A jury trial held last week for an Emporium woman charged with resisting arrest and aggravated assault ended in a split verdict.
Veronica Ann Moate, age 52, of East Allegany Avenue in the Borough of Emporium, was found guilty by a jury of her peers of two misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest, but was acquitted of the felony charge of aggravated assault.