Chancellor v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for extortion; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

We have carefully gone over every phase of Art. 365, P. C., defining the offense of extortion, also the decisions of this court construing same, as well as the facts in this case. The ways in which an officer authorized by law to collect for himself or another fees or purported fees, so as to make him amenable to this statute, are three: First, the wilful collection of any fee or fees not allowed by law; second, the wilful collection of any money as a purported fee for a service or act not done; third, the…