State v. Davis

This is an appeal1 by John R. Davis (hereinafter “the Appellant”) from a July 10,1995, *86order of the Circuit Court of Harrison County denying the Appellants’s motion to. set aside the verdict or to grant a new trial. The Appellant was found guilty of obstructing a police officer and sentenced to ten days in the Harrison County Correctional Center and eighty hours of community service. He appeals his conviction to this Court, contending that the lower court misapplied West Virginia Code § 61-5-17 (Supp.1996) regarding obstruction and failed to honor the Appellant’s rights to free speech and to…