Dixon v. State

Appellant was jointly indicted with his- wife, Alex Dixon, and E. J. Anderson, the indictment, omitting the formal parts, charging that they “did willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, and forcibly snatch, take, steal and carry away from the person of Homer Solomon, the sum of thirty dollars of current and lawful money of the United States of America, the exact denominations of which are to the grand jurors unknown, the money and personal property of the said Homer Solomon, against the peace and dignity of the state of Mississippi.” The appellant and his wife were jointly tried on this…