State v. Merrell

MORIARTY, C.

The appellant, Omer Merrell, was convicted on.the charge of obstructing an officer in the discharge of his duty. From the judgment entered upon such conviction, and from an order denying a new trial, the defendant appeals.

To support the conviction, the state introduced evidence as follows:

Oto. the nth day of June, 1925, C. D. Sanders,- a deputy sheriff of Butt'e county, ‘was watching the actions' of a young man named *130Herrick. About-sundown on that day Sanders saw Herrick drive along the main street of the town of Newell and turn into a cross street on which there was but little…