Cox v. State

DICE, Judge.

Appellant Robert Floyd Cox and his co-defendants, James Orval Martin, Marvin Avery Olson and Edward Nicholas Miller were jointly charged by indictment with the offense of extortion, and upon a severance being granted, appellant was separately tried and convicted and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for 5 years.

The prosecution is under Art. 1268a. V.A.P.C. which provides in part that “whoever shall threaten to take the life of any human being or to inflict upon any human being any serious bodily injury*** for the purpose or with the view of extorting money…