Brown v. United States

HUTCHESON, District Judge.

Upon an indictment under section 121, title 18, U. S. C. (18 USCA § 121), charging him with having unlawfully and with a deadly weapon for the purpose of deterring the officer from discharging his duties, resisted one Albritton, a federal prohibition officer then and there being in the execution of his duties, and authorized to seize and search his ear, appellant, Pete Brown, was convicted and appeals.

At the trial the government fully proved the fact of the resistance, of the desperate and dangerous struggle which resulted from it, and that appellant knew that…