Magner v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. John A. Jamesou, Judge, presiding. This is a prosecution for an alleged violation of sections 1, 2 and 6 of what is known as the Game law of this State, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the several acts relating to the protection of game, and for the protection of deer, wild fowl and birds,” approved May 14, 1879. Section 1 is as follows: “That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to hunt or pursue,…
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. John A. Jamesou, Judge, presiding. This is a prosecution for an alleged violation of sections 1, 2 and 6 of what is known as the Game law of this State, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the several acts relating to the protection of game, and for the protection of deer, wild fowl and birds,” approved May 14, 1879. Section 1 is as follows: “That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to hunt or pursue, kill or trap, net or ensnare, or otherwise destroy, any wild buck, doe or fawn, or wild turkey, between the fifteenth…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
The grounds upon which it is argued the judgment below should be reversed, are—
1st. Because the statute does not condemn the'possession or sale of quail taken and killed beyond the limits of the State, which is subsequently shipped into the State for sale.
2d. Because if the statute shall be held to condemn such possession and sale, then, in its enactment, so much of § 13, art. 4, of the State constitution, as requires that the subject of every act shall be expressed in its title,was disregarded, and hence it is not law.
3d. Because if the statute is free of all other objections, but shall be…
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