State v. Tannyhill

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

John Tannyhill and Robert Keller appeal from a conviction under the statute making it a misdemeanor to “wilfully obstruct, resist or oppose any sheriff or any other ministerial officer in the service or execution or in the attempt to serve or execute any writ, warrant or process.” (Gen. Stat. 1909, § 2657.)

The complaint upon which the conviction was had charged that the defendants willfully resisted, obstructed and opposed the marshal of the court of Topeka in executing a writ of attachment, “by forcibly and violently taking from the…