Jones v. Commonwealth

*473The accused was tried and convicted upon an indictment charging “that on the eighth day of August, in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, in the said county and within the jurisdiction of the said Circuit Court of the county of Henrico, did unlawfully hinder and obstruct one, W. H. Lawrence, a special police officer of the county of Henrico, who was charged with the duty of ascertaining whether ardent spirits was being illegally transported in a certain automobile, by throwing a certain bag and other substances in front of said officer’s automobile, thereby obstructing said…