Commonwealth v. McComb
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 148, Oct. T., 1908, by plaintiff, from order of Q. S. Delaware Co., Miscellaneous Quarter Sessions Docket 316, setting aside summary conviction in case of Commonwealth v. Thomas W. McComb. Appeal from summary conviction. The opinion of the Superior Court state the case. Error assigned was in discharging the prisoner.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The defendant was arrested, taken before an alderman of the city of Chester, and convicted of violating the provisions *413of the following act of assembly: “An Act prohibiting the usé of automatic guns for the killing of game or wild birds within this commonwealth,” and prescribing a penalty for the violation of its provisions.
Section 1, “Be it enacted, etc., that from and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any person to use what is commonly known as an automatic gun for the killing of game within this commonwealth. Each and every person violating any…
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