State v. Richardson
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Indictment, charging the respondent with having knowingly and wilfully, at Landaff, in said county, on the 9th day of December, 1857, with force and arms, obstructed one Cyrus Willis, a deputy of the sheriff of this county, duly authorized and specially appointed for that purpose, in the service of a certain writ of attachment, particularly described and duly and legally issued, the same being a lawful process in a civil case, said Willis being then and there duly and…
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Indictment, charging the respondent with having knowingly and wilfully, at Landaff, in said county, on the 9th day of December, 1857, with force and arms, obstructed one Cyrus Willis, a deputy of the sheriff of this county, duly authorized and specially appointed for that purpose, in the service of a certain writ of attachment, particularly described and duly and legally issued, the same being a lawful process in a civil case, said Willis being then and there duly and lawfully qualified to serve the same, and engaged in the due and lawful service thereof — the respondent then and there well…
1Opinion of the CourtFowler, J.
In State v. Fijield, decided in this county by the Superior Court, December term, 1845, the report of which is not yet printed, the precise question raised in the present ease was considered and settled. The respondent there was indicted for obstructing a deputy-sheriff in the removal of certain personal property which he had attached as belonging to one Page, on a writ against him, and which was lying at a 'mill occupied by Page. The respondent offered to show in evidence upon the trial, that the property attached was_Jhis own, having been previously assigned to him by Page; and that he used…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- State v. DownerSupreme Court of Vermont · 1836
- Merritt v. MillerSupreme Court of Vermont · 1841
- State v. MillerSupreme Court of Vermont · 1840
- State v. BuchananSupreme Court of Vermont · 1845
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- State v. HaasSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1991
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