Commonwealth v. Stawasz

John Stawasz, aged twenty years, and Stanley Kuchinski, aged eighteen years, were arrested on oath of a fish warden for using a dip-net or minnow seine over four feet in diameter, in violation of section 45 (c) of the Act of July 28, 1917, P. L. 1215, and fined. This is a hearing upon an appeal from that conviction, and it becomes our duty to determine the guilt or innocence of the defendants de novo.

*88The facts virtually admitted are as follows: The defendants, inoffensive and heretofore law-abiding, borrowed from an adult friend a minnow-net, and while fishing for bait fish in Lake Nuangola,…