Galliher v. Commonwealth

Floyd Galliher, a young man twenty-one years of age, was tried before a justice of the peace upon a warrant charging that; on June 30, 1931, he did “by force unlawfully attempt to impede J. W. Lambert, * * * a peace officer of the town of Saltville, Virginia, in the discharge of his duty by unlawfully assaulting said J. W. Lambert.”

The justice found him guilty and fined him ten dollars. From this judgment he appealed to the Circuit Court of Smyth county, in which he was tried before a jury. The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty and fixing his punishment at sixty days in jail and a…