State v. . Poor

His Honor charged the jury that the levy made by Short, the constable, by virtue of the attachment in his hands, was insufficient to attach the property, and that the defendant derived no authority from the said officer to resist Cranor, the deputy sheriff. The defendant was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine, and appealed. We think that it was correctly held by his Honor that the constable by indorsing on the writ of attachment in the manner set forth in the case that he had levied on the growing crop of the defendant in the attachment, did not acquire the legal possession thereof. To the…