State v. Hoffman

The State of Tennessee and Robert Hoffman have appealed from the action of the Trial Court and, therefore, both occupy the status of plaintiff-in-error and defendant-in-error, and in this opinion they shall be referred to as they appeared in the Trial Court.

The record discloses that the defendant was arrested upon a charge of offering for sale and selling eleven head of game fish in violation of Section 51-431 T.C.A. upon a warrant procured by J. R,. Hall, Agent for the Fish & Game Department of the State of Tennessee.

On February 14, 1962 upon the trial of the case in the General Sessions…