Robinson

Upon an indictment charging attempts to commit extortion, the appellant was found guilty by a jury. He moved for a new trial, which was denied, and thereupon appealed from the judgment and from the orders entered upon said motions. ■

In one count of the indictment it was alleged that in violation of sections 518, 519 and 524 of the Penal Code, the defendant attempted to extort property from a judge of the superior court by a threat that he would publish and cause to be printed in a newspaper a statement falsely exposing said judge to disgrace and imputing disgrace to him, unless the latter should appoint him a receiver in an action then pending. In the remaining count it was charged that the defendant did “by means of a threat which he, the said defendant . . . did then and there . . . make and communicate orally to the said A. J. Showalter that he, the said defendant Harold Robinson would print and publish and cause to be printed and published in a newspaper edited and published by him, . . . and having a general circulation ... a statement or article which would expose him the said A. J. Showalter to disgrace and would impute disgrace to him . . . and would express secrets…