Padley v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
James I. Padley was convicted under Section 4756, Rev. Code 1915, of secreting, destroying and removing from the county certain goods and chattels levied on by the sheriff under execution process and brings error. Affirmed. The facts and questions of law presented appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Rice, J.,
delivering the opinion of the court:
James I. Padley, the defendant below and plaintiff in error, at the January Term of the Court of General Sessions, in and for New Castle County, was convicted on a charge of secreting, destroying and removing from the county, without the consent of the execution creditor, certain goods and chattels which had been seized or levied on by the sheriff of the county under a writ of execution issued to him.
The assignments of error filed in this court are ten in number, but at the argument some were abandoned and those remaining were summarized by counsel…
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