State v. Yates

A complaint was filed in a justice court of Fillmore county charging the defendant with willfully resisting the. coroner of said county while executing a certain writ of replevin, duly issued out of the district court of said county and placed in his hands for service. Over the objections of the defendant, a jury was impaneled, the defendant was tried, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Thereupon the justice sentenced Yates to pay a fine of $3. The defendant prosecuted a petition in error to the district *288court, where the judgment of the justice was reversed and set aside. The county…