Sexton v. California
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. • Plaintiff in error was convicted in the Superior Court of the county of El Dorado, California, of the crime of extortion. Judgment was entered, and, upon appeal .to the Supreme Court of California, it was there affirmed, 132 California, 37, and the plaintiff in error brings the case here for review.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. • Plaintiff in error was convicted in the Superior Court of the county of El Dorado, California, of the crime of extortion. Judgment was entered, and, upon appeal .to the Supreme Court of California, it was there affirmed, 132 California, 37, and the plaintiff in error brings the case here for review. The indictment upon which the conviction was had alleged that on June 20, 1898, at the county of El Dorado, State of California, one S. H. Briggs and the plaintiff in error— “ • • • did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously obtain from one C.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The record now before us raises but a single question for our determination, and that is whether the state court upon the facts alleged in the indictment had any jurisdiction over the • subject matter.
The plaintiff in error contends that the right of the general government to exercise jurisdiction over the crime of which he was convicted is exclusive, and therefore the state court had no right to try him upon the indictment found in that court.
The act of which the plaintiff in error is alleged to have threatened to accuse Greenwald of committing is mentioned in section 3392 of the Revised…
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