State v. Ames

WERNICK, Justice.

On November 20, 1975, defendants Ronald K. Ames, Kenneth Bickford, Michael Fogg and John P. Schroeder were charged by complaint in the District Court (Knox County) with “unlawfully to participat[ing] in a joint hunt for deer, wherein an effort was made to drive deer”, in violation of 12 M.R.S.A. § 2462. Pursuant to M.Dist.Ct. Crim.R. 40 the cases were thereafter transferred to the Superior Court. Defendants were tried together before a jury and were found guilty as charged. 1 Defendants have appealed (by a single notice of appeal) from the judgments of conviction. 2

We deny…