State v. Farroba

There are several reasons why I did not refer to the question of venue in the original opinion which I wrote for the court in this case. In the first place, the question was not tendered as a preliminary exception to the jurisdiction of the court, or before the trial of the case on its merits, but was presented during the progress of the trial and was dealt with as a matter of defense. In fact the judge’s decision on the question was not even excepted to. In the second place, the question whether the alleged offense of catching salf-water shrimp in the waters of the state was committed inside…