State v. Heard

246 Miss. 774 (1963)

151 So.2d 417

STATE

v.

HEARD

No. 42547.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 1, 1963.

G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellant.

William Joel Blass, Wiggins, for appellee.

ETHRIDGE, J.

The question is whether a nonresident of Mississippi, who pays the owner for the privilege, may fish in a privately owned, land-locked lake in this state without first obtaining the fishing license required of nonresidents by Mississippi Code 1942, Rec., section 5904. Miss. Laws 1956, ch. 151.

(Hn 1) Zack T. Heard, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was convicted in a Justice of…