State v. Dixon

Derek W. Dixon appeals his first degree murder conviction by a jury in the district court for Douglas County. The information charged that Dixon “during the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate a burglary [did] kill Susan K. Jourdan.” Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-303 (Reissue 1979) provides: “A person commits murder in the first degree if he kills another person... (2) in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate any sexual assault in the first degree, arson, robbery, kidnapping, hijacking of any public or private means of transportation, or burglary...”

Susan Jourdan, age 76, lived alone in…