State v. Peters

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

The indictment in this case charged that the defendant “did willfully, maliciously and feloniously, upon the public road known as the Bayou Boeuf road, and at other public places, threaten to accuse and did accuse one Eli G. Matthews of the crime of larceny, *731with the intent to extort from said Matthews money or other thing of value.”

Tiio verdict of the jury was as follows: “We, the jury, find the prisoner guilty of charging Eli J. Matthews of larceny, as charged in indictment, with malicious intent.”

The indictment was evidently framed under…