People v. Parker

Defendant Gilbert Parker, known also by aliases, together with two others who were not apprehended, was charged with maliciously threatening- to accuse Charles Bartlett of the crime of gross indecency with intent'thereby to extort $5,000 from him, and with extorting such sum. Gilbert appeals from a judgment of conviction.

Inasmuch as appellant claims that the verdict was against the great weight of the evidence and against the law and the facts, it is necessary to review the facts very briefly. It was shown that while Bartlett was in the lavatory of a hotel, another man entered and made a…