Geer v. Connecticut
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ERRORS OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. The General Statutes of the State of Connecticut provide (Sec. 2530, Revision of 1888): “ Every person who shall buy, sell, expose for sale, or have in his possession for any purpose, or who shall hunt, pursue, kill, destroy or attempt to kill any woodcock, quail, ruffled grouse, called partridge, or gray squirrel, between, the first day of January and the first day of October, the killing or having in…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ERRORS OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. The General Statutes of the State of Connecticut provide (Sec. 2530, Revision of 1888): “ Every person who shall buy, sell, expose for sale, or have in his possession for any purpose, or who shall hunt, pursue, kill, destroy or attempt to kill any woodcock, quail, ruffled grouse, called partridge, or gray squirrel, between, the first day of January and the first day of October, the killing or having in possession of each bird or squirrel to be deemed a separate offence, . . . shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
By the statutes of the State of Connecticut, referred to in the statement of facts, the open season for the game birds mentioned therein was from the first day of October to the first day of January. The birds which the defendant was charged with unlawfully having in his possession on the 19th of October, for the purpose of unlawful transportation beyond the State, were alleged to have been killed within the State after the first day of October. They were, therefore, killed during the open season. There was no charge that they had been unlawfully killed for the purpose of being transported…
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