Commonwealth v. Norris

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

Appellant was indicted and coñvi’eted in the court below of the offense of extortion. He complains upon this appeal that the conviction cannot stand because: 1. The indictment should have been quashed; 2. the evidence is insufficient to sustain-the conviction; 3. there were errors committed in excluding certain evidence.

1. The first count in the indictment, which was the only count on which appellant was convicted, charged that he “being then and there an officer of this Commonwealth, to wit, Chief of Police of the Borough of Emporium in said County, did extort money…