State v. Sullivan

Three cases have by agreement been consolidated on this appeal.

In two of these, Patrick Sullivan was charged before a justice of the peace with the offense of unlawfully trapping or ensnaring migratory game birds. In each of these cases, the defendant was convicted before the justice of the peace and fined one hundred dollars and costs; from which judgments the defendant appealed to the superior court, where he was also found guilty, that court, however, imposing in each case a fine of only ten dollars and.costs. Prom these two judgments the state has appealed, contending that the fines…