Obstructing Justice

The act by which one or more persons attempts to prevent, or do prevent, the execution of lawful process. It applies also to obstructing the administration of justice in any way— as by hindering witnesses from appearing. The officer must be prevented by, actual violence, or by threatened violence accompanied by the exercise of force, or by those having capacity to employ it, by which the officer is prevented from.executing his writ. The officer is not required to expose liis person by a personal conflict with the offender;