SCHMIDT v. UNITED STATES

No. 15352.

237 F.2d 542 (1956)

Henry SCHMIDT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

October 24, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome F. Duggan, St. Louis, Mo. (Sidney W. Horwitz, and Dubinsky & Duggan, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant.

Forrest Boecker, Asst. U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., (Harry Richards, U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., and Robert C. Tucker, Asst. U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellee.

Before JOHNSEN, VAN OOSTERHOUT and WHITTAKER, Circuit Judges.


WHITTAKER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Henry Schmidt, a business agent of Local 682 of the Building Material and Construction Chauffeurs Union, at St. Louis, and one Peter Higgins, were charged, by indictment in six counts, with having — in Count One — conspired to extort, and — in Count Four — with having extorted, by threats of physical violence, the sum of $500 from a contractor named C. Hubert Gragg, and with having — in Count...

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