People ex rel. Colorado Bar Ass'n v. Varnum

The charge in'this case is that respondent attempted to blackmail P. D. Lochridge, a lieutenant in the regular army. The averments on which this charge is based are, in substance, that respondent made a false and fictitious claim against Mr. Lochridge for alleged professional services rendered, and in order to extort payment, sent him a bill therefor so worded that it conveyed a covert threat that unless paid, Lochridge would be disgraced in the estimation of his brother officers, friends, and the public, by an exposure of conduct on his part discreditable to him as an officer and a…