People v. Hall
New York Supreme Court
Writ of error to tbe Court of Sessions of Orleans county to review a judgment and conviction of tbe plaintiff in error for tbe offense of resisting an officer in tbe execution of process.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J.:
An execution upon a justice’s judgment against Charles Hall having been issued to one Ayers, a constable, that officer levied upon a quantity of beans in the barn of the plaintiff in error, the father of Charles Hall, which the constable had been informed and believed, were the property of the debtor, who lived with his father on the premises. As the constable was about to remove the beans from the barn, the plaintiff in error told him the beans, were his and did not belong to Charles and he bade the constable not to levy on them or remove them from the premises. The constable…
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