Fauble v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Pottawatomie county of extortion, and was sentenced to serve a term of 5 years in the state penitentiary.

The case was closely tried by both counsel for the state and for the defendant. The charge was predicated upon section 2138, Comp. St. 1921. It charges in substance that defendant on October 6, 1929, with a felonious intent to extort money from one J. F. Buck, did send said Buck a certain letter quoted in full in the information, demanding said Buck pay $17,000 in currency, in a bundle to be put at…