State v. Moore
Supreme Court of Connecticut
■ INFORMATION for unlawfully obstructing the execution of legal process, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield county.
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■ INFORMATION for unlawfully obstructing the execution of legal process, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield county. The information charged “ that at Washington, in said county, on the 5th day of January, 1871, Julius A. Glover was lawfully deputed, according to the statute in such cases provided, as an indifferent person, by Frederick Beardsley, Esq., a justice of the peace for said county, and as such indifferent person had in his hands a writ of attachment, issued by said justice, in favor of Otis E. Gillette of said Wash ington, and against Joseph P. Moore of said Washington,…
1Opinion of the Court
PáRK, J.
The principal question in this case is whether it is an offence within the provisions of the 103d section of the act concerning crimes and punishments, (Revised Statutes, page 261,) for a person to hinder and obstruct an indifferent person, regularly deputed to serve a writ of attachment, while such person is engaged in the performance of his duty in serving such process. The language of the statute is, “Every person who shall hinder, obstruct, resist, or abuse any justice of the peace, or resist, hinder, obstruct, or abuse any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or other officer, in…
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