Drannon v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is a violation of Article 1268a, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., which denounces a threat to take life or injure property for the purpose of extorting money from the person threatened; the punishment, 25 years.

The witness Roden, a resident of Odessa in Ector County, testified that on the day before the date alleged in the indictment he began to receive threatening telephone calls from a man who identified himself as “the professor” saying he represented the “Mafia” and stating that -he had come to collect $730, which he implied the witness had acquired unlawfully from…