Commonwealth v. Wilkinson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEPENDANT EROM THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 217 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 205 March Term, 1890, Q. S. On March 10, 1890, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment of William Wilkinson and Sarah Wilkinson, charging in the first count that the defendants on January 8, 1890, did kill and expose for sale “twenty quail and Virginia partridge,” and charging in the second count that the defendants on the same dajr…
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APPEAL BY DEPENDANT EROM THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 217 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 205 March Term, 1890, Q. S. On March 10, 1890, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment of William Wilkinson and Sarah Wilkinson, charging in the first count that the defendants on January 8, 1890, did kill and expose for sale “twenty quail and Virginia partridge,” and charging in the second count that the defendants on the same dajr did have in their possession, after the same bad been tilled, “ twenty quail and Virginia partridge,” etc. The defendants…
1Opinion of the Court
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Mb. Chtep Justice Paxson :
The defendant was convicted in the court below of a violation of the game laws. The jury found specially that he had in his possession for sale, and exposed for sale, in the city of Pittsburgh, on January 8, 1890, twenty quail; but they also found “ that said quail were not killed in the state of Pennsylvania, but were ordered by telegraph, by the defendant, from a firm in St. Louis, Mo., where it was at the time lawful to kill and sell said quail; that said quail were so ordered on December 28, 1889, and were delivered by the Adams Express Company and paid…
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