State v. Turner
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Complaint by a grandjuror for the violation of Gen. Statutes, § 1454, which forbids the entering upon the enclosed land of another, for the purpose of hunting or fishing thereon, without the consent of the owner; brought before a justice of the peace, and appealed by the defendant to the Criminal Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County, and tried to the jury in that court, on the plea of not guilty, before Walsh, J. The defendant was charged with fishing.in Potatuck brook,…
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Complaint by a grandjuror for the violation of Gen. Statutes, § 1454, which forbids the entering upon the enclosed land of another, for the purpose of hunting or fishing thereon, without the consent of the owner; brought before a justice of the peace, and appealed by the defendant to the Criminal Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County, and tried to the jury in that court, on the plea of not guilty, before Walsh, J. The defendant was charged with fishing.in Potatuck brook, upon land of one John B. Peck. Upon the trial the defendant offered .evidence that Peck, the owner of the land, had not…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
The defendant was prosecuted before a justice of the peace in the town of Newtown upon a grand-juror’s complaint, charging that “ on the fourth day of April, 1890, at said Newtown, the defendant with force and arms did enter upon the enclosed lands of John B. Peck of said Newtown, at and near the Deep Hollow bridge over the Potatnok brook so called, in said town, without the permission of said Peck, for the purpose of fishing in said Potatuck brook, which flows on the land of said Peck at that point; against the peace and contrary to the statute in such case made and provided; ” and he was…
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