Court Opinion

ID: 9858117
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 16:15:06.711076+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:03:05.680582
License: Public Domain

On Petition to Rehear
The plaintiff in error through able counsel has filed a sincere petition to rehear in this case. It is again argued that under the statute in question an intent to extort money, property or other pecuniary advantage is a necessary requirement to show a violation of this statute.
Counsel cites one additional authority for this position. State v. Smith, 197 Tenn. 350, 273 S.W.2d 143. It so happens that the Smith case was prepared for this Court by the author of the present opinion.
We do not hold in the Smith case that the intent to extort money, property or other pecuniary advantage was the sole ground upon which a conviction could be sustained under this statute. In the Smith case it so happened that there were sufficient allegations of extorting property or pecuniary advantage as is shown by the facts of that case. The Smith case is not authority for the position contended for herein.
After a thorough reconsideration of the matter and the questions herein presented we are satisfied that we correctly construed this statute in our original opinion.
For the reasons therein expressed in the original opinion the petition here must be denied.