Case ID: scl_20/html/0617-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State v. G. B. Castles.
   There is no such offence as obstructing a patrol in the per-formauee of their duty. To assault a public officer in the discharge of his duty, is an aggravated misdemeanor; but the assault is the offence, and the fact of its being committed on a public officer is mere aggravation; and so, to assault a patrol would be a misdemeanor, and it might also be a misdemeanor to rescue from them a slave lawfully apprehended; but so long as the opposition to a patrol consists in mere words, an indictment will not lie.