State v. Momb

*675The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant on a plea in abatement which he interposed against his prosecution on an indictment charging blackmail.

On December 8, 1938, a grand jury in Sedgwick county indicted defendant for a felonious attempt to extort $50 from one Henry Heimerman by threatening to accuse him before the grand jury of the crime of operating slot machines in violation of law. On the same day the grand jury indicted defendant for a felonious attempt to extort $25 from one John Mans by threatening to accuse him of…