People v. Ellerhorst

Appellant, with others, was charged in two counts with conspiracies to commit murder and extortion, with guilty verdicts returned on both counts. The proofs disclosed a bizarre plot, conceived by appellant, for the extortion of money from several.people who were to be kidnapped, mistreated and finally murdered. In addition to his co-defendants, appellant enlisted the aid of Donald Sundberg and Floyd Kupkowski in furtherance of the plot, and it was upon their testimony that the prosecution’s case rested. The specific details of the con spiracy, as they related it, are unimportant, but it may…