People ex rel. Perry v. Gillette

Barhite, Special 0. J.:

The relator was indicted with another oy the grand jury of Monroe county for the crime of an attempt to commit the crime of extortion, it being alleged that the accused persons did, on the 2d day of February, 1910, at the city of Rochester, and county of Monroe, feloniously and extorsively attempt to ob*411tain from a person named, -with, his consent, the sum of $500, and that such consent was intended to be induced by the wrongful use of fear on the part of the defendants, through the means of a threat made to the person threatened to publicly accuse him of a crime.

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