Fetty v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter designated defendant, was convicted of the offense of blackmail and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of one year. He prosecutes error, to review the record of his conviction.

This is the third appearance of this cause in this court. Judgments on former verdicts of guilty were reversed. See Fetty v. State, 118 Neb. 169, and Fetty v. State, 119 Neb. 619. In the information defendant was charged with attempting, by means of threatening letters, to extort the sum of $2,000 from one Hunter.

It is contended that the trial court erred in…