Perrow v. State

Citations

• 67 Miss. 365

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Obstructing the course of justice. Indictment. Case in judgment.</p> <p>Under § 2976, code 1880, which, makes punishable as for a misdemeanor any attempt to impede the administration of justice, where the proof is that the accused aided a person to elude the sheriff who was seeking to serve an attachment against him as a defaulting witness, a conviction will not be set aside merely because the indictment charged, by way of inducement, that the witness had been subpoenaed and made no mention of the attachment; provided it sufficiently charged the essential fact that the accused counseled the witness not to appear, and aided him to .avoid the officer.</p>