Commonwealth v. Schoenleber Patterson

Opinion by

Trexler, J.,

The defendant was charged in 37 indictments with bribery at common law and aiding and abetting the same, statutory bribery and extortion at common law and aiding and abetting the same (all in conjunction with Schoenleber), extortion from Peters, and extortion of sums of money from various saloon-keepers, with conspiracy to extort on twelve different occasions from Peters, conspiracy to extort money from saloon-keepers on twelve different occasions, and conspiracy to extort $12,195, the aggregate of the above sums.

The Commonwealth proved that sometime in February, 1928,…