Utterback v. State

Appellant and one Stella Cooper were prosecuted upon affidavit and information for the crime of conspiring together to extort money from one Everett Sheeks by filing an affidavit against him before a justice of the peace of Lawrence county, in this State, feloniously accusing and charging the said Sheeks with a criminal assault upon the said Stella Cooper, with the felonious intent to extort the sum of $500 from the said Sheeks. Upon the trial both defendants were convicted. Utterback appealed.

A motion to quash the information having been made and overruled below, it is urged here that the…