Jordon v. United States

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree under an indictment charging that on April 3, 1931, he and Edith Dodsworth murdered Lizzie S. Jaynes.

Appellant was tried alone, the Dodsworth girl never having been apprehended.

The killing occurred in a restaurant in Columbia Road, N. W., in Washington City. On the night of April 3, about 11:30, two masked men with drawn pistols entered the restaurant. One of them was tall, the other short. The testimony of the eyewitnesses to the killing is that the tall man went half way back the length of the counter to where one of the women clerks was…