Every officer whose office is abolished by law, or who, after the expiration of the time for which he may be appointed or elected, or after he has resigned or been legally removed from office, wilfully and unlawfully withholds or detains from his successor, or other person entitled thereto, the records, papers, documents or other writings appertaining or belonging to his office, or mutilates, destroys or takes away the same, is guilty of a felony.