State v. Burns

The appellants were convicted of the crime of extortion. They have appealed from the judgment and sentence on the verdict.

Omitting the formal parts, the information in substance charged: That the defendants on April 1, 1929, with intent to extort and gain the sum of five thousand dollars, did verbally threaten to accuse Leland Frease of the crime of grand larceny, and, by means of such threats, did extort and gain from him the sum of four thousand dollars.

The statute, § 2610, Rem. Comp. Stat., on which the information is based, provides:

“Every person, who, under circumstances not amounting to…