State v. Buck

Defendant Floyd Buck, proprietor of a furniture store in the Town of Wolcott, was convicted below on two counts of hindering a civil officer in the execution of his office, in violation of 13 V.S.A. § 3001. The two counts were based on the same incident, involving two State Field Tax Examiners, one named Gray and the other Beeman. He appeals the convictions on several grounds, two of which we treat herein as dispositive of the appeal. The first ground is that the examiners in question are not civil officers within the meaning of the statute, and the second that hindering in the execution of…