Goulding v. State

KRUEGER, Judge. —

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of extortion, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of five years.

The prosecution was had under article 1268a, P. C., of an Act of the 42nd Legislature, chapter 10, sec. 1, which reads as follows:

“Whoever shall threaten to take the life of any human being or to inflict upon any human being any serious bodily injury, or to burn, injure or destroy any property of any person for the purpose or with the view of extorting money or anything of value, from the person threatened, shall be…