Legal Opinion
State v. Barr
Washington Supreme Court
Decided January 30, 1912No. 9845PublishedCited by 3 opinions
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Eng county, Main, J., entered July 8, 1911, upon a trial and conviction of extortion.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
The defendants were convicted of the crime of extortion. They have appealed from the sentence which followed.
The information charged them as follows:
“They, said Harry Barr,' alias Harry Emmett, May Barr, and Harry H. Carroll, and each of them, in the county of Eng, state of Washington, on the 27th day of January, A. D. 1911, then and there wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously did verbally threaten one John C. Robey, to accuse said John C. Robey of having committed the crime of adultery *88with one May Barr, a married woman, and not the wife of said John C. Robey, and by means of such threat,…
2Cited by3 opinions
- People v. PeppercornCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1939
- People v. KohnCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1968
- State v. SkorpenCourt of Appeals of Washington · 1990