Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0663-02.html
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Author: {"author": "MIDDLETON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 847
    HAWKINS v. STATE
    Ohio Appeals, 8th Dist., Cuyahoga Co.
    No. 6643.
    Decided March 1, 1926
    Judges Mauck, Sayre & Middleton, 4th Dist., sitting.
    494. EXTORTION — Justice of Peace accepting check for dismissing case is guilty of extortion.
    681; JURISDICTION — Municipal court has jurisdiction of crime occurring in Cleveland.
    Attorneys — Carpenter & Smith for Hawkins; Jacob Stacel for State; all of Cleveland.
   MIDDLETON, J.

R. R. Hawkins, a Justice of Peace in Cuyahoga County, was convicted in the Cleveland -Municipal Court of the crime of extortion. He seeks to set aside this conviction, alleging that the judgment was contrary to the evidence and that the court had no jurisdiction. The Court of Appeals held:

1. Testimony being given to the fact that the crime charged occurred in Cleveland, gave the court jurisdiction.
2. Evidence clearly shows that Hawkins accepted a check for dismissing a charge of selling intoxicating liquor, and that neither the charge or the amount received was ever docketed.

.Judgment therefore affirmed.