People v. Davis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Percy L. Davis, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered against the defendant on the 6th day of January, 1913, convicting him of an attempt to commit the crime of extortion.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
The defendant has been convicted of the crime of attempted extortion, for which he was jointly indicted with one Eben J. Owen. In August, 1912, Viola Dawson, a girl of seventeen years of age, pleaded guilty of the crime of forgery in having procured the cashing of a check for twenty-five dollars, which she claimed she had been paid for wages by Mrs. Eva B. Oar-roll, the complaining witness herein, in whose employ she had been. Sentence was suspended upon Said Dawson, and she was paroled in the custody of the probation officer and one Mrs. Piper. The codefendant Owen, who claims to…
2Cited by1 opinion
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