Pettis v. State

Arrington, 0.

The appellant was convicted for unlawfully resisting J. F. Green, sheriff of Greene County, while he was in the act of arresting one Johnny Bolton, and was sentenced to serve a period of six months in jail and to pay a fine of $300.00, ninety days of the jail sentence and $150.00 of the fine to be suspended pending good behavior. The indictment was based on Section 2293, Code of 1942, and, omitting the formal parts, it reads as follows: “. . . did knowingly and unlawfully oppose and resist J. F. Green, who was then and there sheriff of Greene County, Mississippi, in attempting to…