State v. Parkins

BraNNON, Judge:

Bennett S. White, as deputy game and fish warden, caused the indictment and conviction of Robert Parkins for unlawfully killing Virginia quail, and several fines imposed upon Parkins were paid into the circuit court of Monongalia county. White filed a petition in that court claiming said fines for his service as deputy warden; but the court denied his right to the fine money, and directed that it be paid to the sheriff to be accounted for to the state treasury under the law relating to filies.

A statute provides that “the deputy game and fish wardens shall receive for their…