People v. Sanders

RICHARDS, J., pro tem.

The appellant herein was tried and convicted upon the charge of extortion. In his appeal from the judgment entered upon such-conviction he makes two main contentions as grounds for the reversal of such judgment. These are, first, insufficiency of the indictment; second, insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict and judgment of conviction.

The defendant, with three other persons, whose names were Claude Morton, William W. Swan, and Lee Yarain, were accused by the grand jury of the county of Los Angeles, by indictment, of the crime of extortion. The charging part…