State v. Heard

The question is whether a nonresident of Mississippi, who pays the owner for the privilege, may fish in a privately owned, land-locked lake in this state without first obtaining the fishing license required of nonresi*777dents by Mississippi Code 1942, Rec., section 5904. Miss. Laws 1956, ch. 151.

(Hn 1) Zaek T. Heard, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was convicted in a Justice of Peace Court of fishing without a fishing’ license. He appealed to the Circuit Court of Stone County, which considered the case on a stipulation of facts and without a jury. That court, holding defendant was not…