State v. Mister
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court for Somerset county. The appellee and others, boatmen oa board the schooner “Two Sisters,” were arrested and brought before a justice of the peace for Somerset county, charged with “having violated the laws of this State, by using scoops or drags in taking or •catching of oysters in the waters of this State.”
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court for Somerset county. The appellee and others, boatmen oa board the schooner “Two Sisters,” were arrested and brought before a justice of the peace for Somerset county, charged with “having violated the laws of this State, by using scoops or drags in taking or •catching of oysters in the waters of this State.” The judgment of the justice, rendered on the 19th of March 1851, found the parties guilty, imposed a fine of $10 upon each of them, and condemned the vessel to be forfeited. From the judgment of condemnation, Mister, one of the boatmen, on the 29th of…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
The acts of 1833, ch. 254, and 1S37, ch. 310, were passed for the purpose of preventing the destruction of oysters in this State, and impose certain penalties for the violation of their provisions.
The case now brought before us by a writ of error, commenced before a justice of the peace in Somerset county, whose judgment imposed a fine of $10 upon the defendant, and forfeited tbe vessel. The amount of the fine shows that it was imposed under the act of 1837, as that act prescribes a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $50, whilst the former law makes $5 the maximum of the fine for each of…
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