Webster v. State

Appellant and Newman were charged by an indictment in three counts with conspiracy to commit the felony of blackmail-. The first and second counts alleged that the person whom the defendants conspired to blackmail was one Thomas 0. Sines; the third count charged that they conspired to blackmail “persons, whose names are to the grand jurors unknown.” The appellant obtained a special judge and in a- separate trial, by the court, was found guilty as charged. Appellant’s motion for new trial was overruled. The sole error assigned on appeal is the action of the trial court in oyerruling the motion…