Appellant was convicted under section 650 of the Penal Code which reads: "Every person who knowingly and wilfully sends or delivers to another any letter or writing, whether subscribed or not, threatening to accuse him or another of a crime, or to expose or publish any of his failings or infirmities, is guilty of a misdemeanor."
The statute was enacted in 1872, but there are no reported cases passing
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