State v. Saunders
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Cherokee District Court. An information was filed against Saunders, charging among other things, that, on the 8th of November 1876, Saunders was the agent at Columbus, in Cherokee county, of the Adams Express Company, a common carrier, and as such agent was then and there acting for said company, and then and there as such agent “knowingly and unlawfully did receive and ship prairie chickens which had been recently killed as game,” to be transported by said…
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Appeal from Cherokee District Court. An information was filed against Saunders, charging among other things, that, on the 8th of November 1876, Saunders was the agent at Columbus, in Cherokee county, of the Adams Express Company, a common carrier, and as such agent was then and there acting for said company, and then and there as such agent “knowingly and unlawfully did receive and ship prairie chickens which had been recently killed as game,” to be transported by said express company from said Columbus, Cherokee county, to the city of Chicago, in the state of Illinois, etc. Trial at the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
chapter 82 Laws of Í876. This was a criminal prosecution for an alleged violation of section 6 of the act of the legislature of the state of Kansas of 1876, entitled, “An act for the protection of birds.” (Laws of 1876, pp. 183,184.) It seems that the defendant, as the agent of the Adams Express Company, on the 8th of November 1876, shipped by said express company from Columbus, Cherokee county, Kansas, to Chicago, Illinois, four prairie chickens, which prairie chickens had previously and recently been killed as game. Said prairie…
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