Commonwealth v. Hall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint on the St. of 1879, e. 209, § 1, charging the defendants, on July 15, 1879, at Boston, with having in their possession, offering for sale and selling one dead woodcock.
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Complaint on the St. of 1879, e. 209, § 1, charging the defendants, on July 15, 1879, at Boston, with having in their possession, offering for sale and selling one dead woodcock. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., it ap peared that the defendants had, and at their dining-room served to a guest, a woodcock, for which they received payment; and that the woodcock was not killed, taken or caught in this Commonwealth, but was taken, caught or killed in Pennsylvania, at a season and time when it was lawful, by the laws of that state, to take, catch or kill woodcock, and was dead…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
This complaint is founded on the St. of 1879, o. 209, § 1, by which it is enacted that “whoever in this Commonwealth tabes or kills any woodcock, or any ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, between the first day of January and the first day of September in any year, or any quail between the first day of January and the fifteenth day of October in any year, or within the respective times aforesaid sells, buys, has in possession, or offers for sale, any of said birds, shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of twenty dollars for each and every such bird.”
*411The clause of this statute, as…
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