Legal Opinion
Maitland v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided June 5, 1933No. 13,266PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
L. M. Maitland was convicted of killing a buck deer within the limits of the Colorado State Game Refuge and was fined $25. He challenges the constitutionality of the act creating that game refuge — Session Laws of 1919, c. 99, amended by Session Laws of 1927, c. 108.
It is said that the act contravenes two sections of our state Constitution. No question other than the constitutional question is presented by the record.
1. Section 25, article 5, of the Constitution, forbids the General Assembly to pass local or special laws for the protection of game or fish. The act in question forbids the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Barrett v. . State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1917
- Cawsey v. BrickeyWashington Supreme Court · 1914
- People v. DiekmannIllinois Supreme Court · 1918
- State v. WardSupreme Court of Iowa · 1915
- Hornbeke v. WhiteColorado Court of Appeals · 1904
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Vogts v. GuerretteSupreme Court of Colorado · 1960
- Richard P. Christy Thomas B. Guthrie Ira Perkins v. Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior United States Department of InteriorCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
- Collopy v. Wildlife Commission, Department of Natural ResourcesSupreme Court of Colorado · 1981
- Alford v. FinchSupreme Court of Florida · 1963
- Mountain States Legal Foundation v. HodelCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1986
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