Putman v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Carroll Circuit Court. J. M. Pittman, Judge. 1. A “special” deputy sheriff is an officer not known or recognized by our laws, except in certain special cases. Mansf. Dig., secs. 2668, 2008, 2391; Bish. Cr. Pro., vol. 2, sec. 884; 103 Mass., 443; 17 III., 373; Mansf. Dig., secs. 6318-19-20. A special' deputy is in no sense a public officer. 2 Jac. & W., 468; Greenl.
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APPEAL from Carroll Circuit Court. J. M. Pittman, Judge. 1. A “special” deputy sheriff is an officer not known or recognized by our laws, except in certain special cases. Mansf. Dig., secs. 2668, 2008, 2391; Bish. Cr. Pro., vol. 2, sec. 884; 103 Mass., 443; 17 III., 373; Mansf. Dig., secs. 6318-19-20. A special' deputy is in no sense a public officer. 2 Jac. & W., 468; Greenl. Ev., vol. 1, sec. 83, note 4. 2. The indictment is insufficient, as it does not charge that appellant resisted “knowing” the said officer to be a'deputy sheriff or other officer. Bishop Dir. & Forms, sec. 839; Bish. Cr.…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The indictment charged that Putman, on the 10th day of August, 1886, unlawfully and feloniously did resist the execution of a certain warrant of arrest, duly issued by the Clerk of the Eastern District of Carroll County, Arkansas, commanding the arrest of Dock Putman upon a charge of grand larceny, said Clerk then and there having authority to issue such warrant of arrest, the same being criminal process, by actually drawing a gun upon and threatening one T. O. Walker, he, the said T. O. Walker, then and there being duly and legally appointed a special deputy sheriff of Carroll County,…
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