Dixon v. State

Appellant was indicted, jointly with his brother, by the grand jury of Madison County, of the crime of murder in the first degree for killing Bob Stepp, on the 7th day of September, 1921. The .indictment, omitting formal parts, is as follows: “The said Otto Dixon and Roscoe Dixon, in the county of Madison, in the State of Arkansas, on the 7th day of September, 1921, while acting together with a common purpose and design, unlawfully, wilfully and feloniously, and with malice aforethought, after deliberation and with premeditation, did kill and murder one Bob Stepp, by cutting him on the body…