A Greene County Criminal Court jury deliberated about one hour Thursday afternoon before finding William Franklin Robinette guilty of two counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder, court officials said.

Robinette, formerly of Gap Creek Road in Bulls Gap, will be sentenced Jan. 27 by Judge John F. Dugger Jr.

Robinette was convicted in September of counts of theft over $1,000 and less than $10,000, and theft over $10,000 and less than $60,000, in relation to the same case.

Dugger sentenced Robinette to 10 years on the second theft count and six years on the first count, to be served concurrently.

That case relates to the one he was tried on this week.

In April 2010, Robinette and two other men were charged with stealing a truck loaded with treated wood and a Bobcat-brand loader.

Also in April 2010, Robinette and another man were charged in connection with the theft of a truck loaded with treated wood from the East Tennessee Forest Products plant on Pottertown Road.

The truck and its contents were valued at $108,000, authorities said.

Greene County Sheriff's Department detectives charged Robinette in May 2010 with soliciting the first-degree murder of two people, one of them a man charged along with him in regard to multiple thefts in April 2010.

Robinette was charged with soliciting the murder of Rick Bowser, of Jackson Lane West, and his girlfriend, Ina Roberts, also of Jackson Lane West.

Warrants on file state that Robinette met with a confidential informant of the Greene County Sheriff's Department at a Baileyton Road residence.

At that meeting, Robinette asked "the confidential informant to murder a co-defendant/witness, Rick Bowser, of an active criminal prosecution."

Authorities said that Robinette approached the informant, and that the informant then contacted the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Assistant District Attorney Generals Cecil Mills Jr. and Ritchie Collins prosecuted the case.