People v. Hall
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant-, William E. Hall, from á judgment of the County Court of Monroe county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 27th day of .December, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury convicting him of the crime of extortion, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on- the 27th day of December, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The defendant was indicted jointly with three others, but tried alone, charged with extorting $200 from Eev. Father Fidelis C. Oberholzer on the 21st of June, 1897. .The gravamen of the accusation- is that three of the men indicted became acquainted with this Catholic priest, who had quite a sum of money laid . by; that after three or four meetings on' unimportant matters the- present defendant and McIntyre professed that they had caught him in a compromising attitude with the defendant -Williams, and charged him with the disgusting crime of sodomy; that they unsuccessfully tried…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- In Re SawyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- State v. BrooksSupreme Court of Missouri · 1887
- People v. . PeckensNew York Court of Appeals · 1897
- Card v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1886
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