Donaldson v. State

Allen Donaldson appeals to this Court from a judgment of death, after being convicted of robbery by violence to the person by the use of a deadly weapon under Chapter 328, Laws of 1932, which provides:

“An act to make robbery a capital offense under certain conditions and to fix the penalty upon conviction for a violation of this act.

*717“Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That every person who shall feloniously take or attempt to take from the person or from the presence the personal property of another and against his will by violence to his person or by…