State v. Kurtz

UDALL, Justice.

Defendants, Walter Kurtz and William Gorman, were jointly charged by an information filed in the superior court with obstructing a public officer, a felony. There was a trial before a jury, which resulted in separate verdicts of guilty, and from the judgment rendered thereon they have duly prosecuted a joint appeal to this court. The sentences imposed were one and one-half to three years in the state penitentiary at Florence, Arizona.

The sole assignment of error is that the trial court was mistaken, as a matter of law, in not granting their motion for a directed verdict at the…