State v. Sturgess

By the Court,

Watson, J".:

On June 4, 1881, the respondent was indicted by the grand jury of Multnomah county for catching salmon fish in the Columbia river, contrary to the act of the legislative assembly, entitled “An Act to protect salmon,” approved October 25, 1880. He was tried on this indictment in the circuit court for said county and found guilty as charged. The court, however, arrested judgment on motion of the respondent, and the state excepted and appealed. The facts established at the trial, as appears by the bill of exceptions, were that the salmon were caught at eighteen minutes…