Hix v. State

Appellants were jointly indicted, along with Essie Fulbright, for the murder of W. P. Ford, which crime was alleged to have been committed by striking Ford with a rock and thus killing him.

There was a severance by Essie Fulbright, and upon her trial she was convicted of murder in the second degree, and has duly appealed. Appellants were also convicted and given each a sentence of ten years for murder in the second degree.

It was the theory of the prosecution that these parties had robbed Ford, and that the homicide was committed either in the commission of that crime or as the result of a…