State v. Debolt
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Guthrie District Court. — Hon. J. H. Apple-gate, Judge. The defendants, George Debolt and Walter Smith, were convicted of the offense of maliciously threatening to accuse another of the crime of sodomy with the intent thereby to extort money; and from the judgment, which required that they be imprisoned in the penitentiary at Ft. Madison for the term of one year, they appeal.—
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
1 — The indictment charges that the offense in question' was committed as follows: “The said George Debolt and Walter Smith on or about the tenth day of October, A. D. 1894, in the county of Guthrie and state of Iowa, as aforesaid, the said George Debolt and Walter Smith acting together and in concert, did then and there, with malicious intent to extort money from one T. J. Simcoke, did then and there, maliciously and feloniously, verbally threaten to accuse the said T. J. Simcoke of the crime of sodomy,"(describing the particular act of which the defendants threatened to accuse Simcoke). The…
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