Court of Appeals of Kentucky April 28, 1843 (Percefull v. Commonwealth)

Chief Justice Ewing

delivered the opinion of the Court.

An indictment was found against Percefull, for making an assault upon John S. Jones, a Constable, and forcibly rescuing from his custody, a horse which he had levied on as the property of Percefull, by virtue of an execution in favor of N. G. Beaty, which had issued from a Justice of the Peace, and was then in his hands in full force.