Any person who forceably assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates or interferes with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this chapter shall be fined not more than $5,000.00 or imprisoned for not more than three years or both. Whoever, in the commission of such acts, uses a deadly or dangerous weapon shall be fined not more than $10,000.00 or imprisoned not more than 10 years or both.
Ala. Code § 2-17-32 (1975)