A Jackson County jury deliberated about four hours over two days before finding the defendants -- David McDonald Heath, 42, and Neva Lynn Honeycutt, 41 -- guilty of nearly a dozen charges of robbery, burglary and assault.

They will face 20 to 30 years each in prison, said Jackson County Deputy District Attorney John Bondurant.

"I wanted them to be convicted of enough of the serious crimes that they would be put away for what amounts to the rest of their lives," Bondurant said.

At the reading of the verdict, Honeycutt wore her dull-green jail fatigues. Heath wore glasses, green slacks and a short-sleeved, striped blue shirt.

As the jury filed out of the courtroom after the verdict was read, Heath sunk his hands deep into his pants pockets. Honeycutt stood up, swung her chair under the table and marched out of the courtroom into a holding cell.

Their convictions stemmed from two robberies last year in the Central Point area.

The defendants were accused of invading a Maple Street home on May 13 and robbing the tenant's houseguest at gunpoint, and then attacking and robbing an elderly couple June 10 in the rural Lane Creek area.

Bob Cameron, 84, who was tied up and beaten during the robbery in Lane Creek, arrived at the Justice Building shortly after the verdict was read Friday.

"I couldn't imagine it being any other way," Cameron said when he was told of the jury's decision.

He said he looks over his shoulder often, locks his door at night and keeps a loaded rifle in his living room now.

"It made me a hateful person," Cameron said. "I went through World War II in the South Pacific, and that didn't make me hateful."

In closing arguments Thursday, Bondurant played up the testimony of the victims. The physical evidence was meager: no fingerprints, no weapons and no recovered property. Bondurant argued the victims' testimony, corroborated by scant physical evidence, was enough proof to convict Heath and Honeycutt.

Honeycutt's public defender, Lorenzo Mejia, worked in vain to raise questions about both attacks.

He argued the May 13 incident "smelled bad," noting the victims did not notify the police until more than 15 hours after the fact.

As for the June 10 incident, he picked at discrepancies between the testimony of the elderly victims, such as contradictions about the weapons used by the assailants.

But Bondurant urged the jury to look at the overall combination of evidence, which he compared to a jigsaw puzzle.

"There's no such thing as a perfect case," he said. "There's always pieces missing."

Honeycutt was convicted of three counts each of first-degree burglary and first-degree robbery, two counts of felon in possession of a weapon and a count of third-degree assault. Heath was convicted of the same charges and a count of second-degree assault.

Jurors threw out three counts of first-degree robbery and a count of first-degree burglary against both of them.

Public defender Mejia said the verdict could have been worse if jurors had found his client guilty on all counts.

He said he didn't know why she wore her jail clothes.

"I tried to put her in civilian clothes," Mejia said. "But she made a decision to wear her jail greens."

The defendants were arrested July 1 in Truth or Consequences, N.M., after Honeycutt walked into the local police station and complained that Heath had menaced her with a pickax.

A records check revealed the pair was wanted in Oregon, and Heath was taken into custody without incident at a motel.