State v. Rushing

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

The defendant, sentenced for attempting to extort money by threats, takes this appeal.

The question raised by the motions to quash and in arrest of judgment is the constitutionality of the legislative act No. 63 of 1884,. under which the indictment was preferred. It is urged that the act violates Art. 29 of the Oonstitution, requiring the legislative act to' embrace but one object, and that to be embraced in its title.

The object of the statute is to define the offence of attempting to extort money by threats or other unlawful devices,'as the…