Whitlock v. Wood

John Wood, Sr., and John Wood, Jr., father and son, as constable and deputy constable, respectively, and E. F. Hamer and Drennan Byars, official-bondsmen of John Wood, Sr., were sued by Eoy Whitlock, father and next friend of Ayers Whit-lock, a minor. It was alleged that Ayers Whitlock stopped where a game was in progress, and John Wood, Jr., acting as deputy constable, raided the group; that Whitlock started walking away and failed to halt when commanded by Wood to do so, as a consequence of which Wood shot and seriously wounded him.

The complaint recites the election of John Wood, Sr., in…