Sexton v. California

Citations

• 189 U.S. 319
• 23 S. Ct. 543
• 47 L. Ed. 833
• 1903 U.S. LEXIS 1355

Syllabus

<p>Under sec. 5328, Rev. Stat., and the provisions of the Criminal Code of California, the state courts of that State have concurrent jurisdiction with the courts of the United States to try a person for extortion where the basis of the extortion was a threat to accuse a person of having committed an act which is a crime exclusively against the United States and made so by a Federal statute.</p>