Dixon v. State

The indictment charged Robert Thomas Dixon with the robbery of Tucker Smith by feloniously taking some $75.00 from his person and against his will by putting him in fear, etc. The jury found the appellant "guilty of robbery as charged" and fixed punishment at ten years imprisonment. The trial court set sentence accordingly and overruled the appellant's motion for new trial, which challenged the weight and sufficiency of the evidence.

Tucker Smith testified that on March 26, 1976, he was employed at Banjo Grocery on Lomb Avenue in the southwest section of the City of Birmingham. Shortly after…