Dixon v. Commonwealth

The plaintiff in error, Clem on Dixon, was arraigned in the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg upon an indictment which charges “that Clemon Dixon, on the 24th day of February, * * * 1933, within said city, unlawfully and feloniously did kill and murder one William Haas.”

Upon his arraignment the accused pleaded “guilty;” and thereupon the court impaneled a jury to try the case. After hearing the evidence and argument of counsel, the jury returned the following verdict: “We, the jury, find the prisoner guilty of first degree murder as charged in the within indictment and fix his…