Mitchell v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an indictment in tlie county court of Campbell ■against Jesse E. Mitchell, for obtaining money from Lizzie May Eobinson by threats of prosecution for criminal of-fences, which he charged her with having committed. On the trial the jury found the prisoner guilty, and fixed the term of his imprisonment in the penitentiary at five years; and the court sentenced him accordingly.
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This was an indictment in tlie county court of Campbell ■against Jesse E. Mitchell, for obtaining money from Lizzie May Eobinson by threats of prosecution for criminal of-fences, which he charged her with having committed. On the trial the jury found the prisoner guilty, and fixed the term of his imprisonment in the penitentiary at five years; and the court sentenced him accordingly. He then obtained a writ of error to the circuit court of the county, where the judgment of the county court was affirmed. And he thereupon applied to a judge of this court for a writ of error and supersedeas;…
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
This was a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of Campbell county, afiirming a judgment of the county court of said county.
The prisoner was indicted in said county court under section 14, chapter 187 of the Code of 1873 (page 1190), for extorting money by threats of injury to the character of *858Lizzie May Robinson, the prosecutrix and sole witness in the case.
He was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to the penitentiary, and his term of imprisonment fixed for five years. The indictment charged that the plaintiff in error, on the 7th day of August, in the year 1877, in the county…
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