People v. Dail

I dissent. A group of eleven defendants were accused in count one of an indictment with conspiracy to commit assaults Upon other persons by means of force *662likely to produce great bodily injury and to obtain property from other persons, with their consent, induced by the wrongful use of force and fear. In five other counts the defendants were charged with assaulting certain named persons by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury. The remaining count accused them of the crime of extortion.

The defendants Harry Dail and Dexter Lewis were convicted on count one and acquitted on all…