State v. Sexton

The questions presented for determination on this record involves the proper construction of the game laws of the State.

Section 6, c. 169, p. 376, Acts 1903, provides as follows:

*38“There shall he no shooting or haying in possession in the open air the implements for shooting on the first day of the week called Sunday, except to transport said implements within or without the State; nor shall any person shoot on or from a public highway.”

The defendant in error, John Sexton, was fined $25 by a justice of the peace of Scott county on a warrant charging Sexton with “having in possession in the open…