State Ex Rel. Wright v. Casey

This appeal involves the question of the right of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to adopt rules and regulations for the conservation and regulation of wildlife in Arkansas. Specifically the question is whether the Commission could promulgate a rule to require a license fee of $1.50 on each hound dog used for chasing foxes for pleasure, and also a penalty for failure to comply.

The question arose in this manner: Appellee Chester Casey was on March 31, 1954, charged in a Justice of the Peace Court with the offense of hunting foxes with a fox hound without first having- procured a license…