State v. Chambers

Michael Chambers was convicted of hunting deer without a valid Washington State hunting license in his possession. He appeals.

There is substantial evidence that on October 11, 1969, during the open deer season, appellant killed a spiked buck mule deer in the Couse Creek area of Asotin County. Appellant’s counsel admitted, in oral argument, that the area in which the kill took place was at least 40 miles from the nearest territory ceded to the United States government by the Yakimas in the Treaty of 1855.

The land on which the deer was killed and from which it was removed was privately owned by…