Dovel v. United States

EVAN A. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Defendants are charged with having resisted and opposed certain prohibition agents who were attempting to serve a search warrant.

The information is attacked because it does not appear that the prohibition agents were such “officers” as were authorized to serve search warrants. This contention is based upon the assertion that the officer to whom the search warrant runs must be a “civil ,officer,” and to be a “civil officer.” nomination by the President and confirmation by the United States Senate, etc., must have occurred. We are of the opinion that the prohibition…