Dixon v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Manalitto Dixon was convicted of kidnapping, interstate interference with child custody, and two counts of aggravated assault. The charges arose out of Dixon’s kidnapping of his biological daughter, Amanda Dixon, from the custody of the child’s mother, Christine Kay Wurtz, by use of a shotgun with which appellant threatened to kill the child’s stepfather, Matthew Wurtz, and a neighbor, Richard Williams. There was evidence appellant struck Matthew Wurtz’s stepfather, who was holding the child. Appellant’s wife Jody Dixon, whom he had married at about the same time…