Trotter v. State

OPINION

RUSSELL, Judge.

Robert Trotter and Pat Trotter, represented on appeal by separate retained counsel, seek reversals of their respective convictions upon a joint trial for extortion, as proscribed by T.C.A. § 39-4301, and penitentiary sentences of two (2) years. Although separately filed, the two assignments of alleged error are the same for both plaintiffs-in-error.

The legal sufficiency of the convicting evidence is questioned. The two men, under the State’s proof, went to the house of one Bradford and stated to him that they had a warrant for his arrest for permitting his daughters to…