State Ex Rel. Sofeico v. Heffernan

ZINN, Justice.

This is an appeal prosecuted to this court from an order of the district court discharging appellee from custody on his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Appellee was arrested on April 13, 1935, on a charge of having in his possession part of a game animal, to wit, the skin of a.bear, contrary to the provisions of Laws 1931, c. 117, § 8.

Appellee had theretofore been arrested on March 31, 1935, charged with killing a. bear out of season. He was sentenced to a fine and imprisonment, from which, however, on the 5th day of April, 1935, appellee was discharged on a writ of habeas…