Love v. State

CONNOR, Justice.

After a jury trial in the district court, appellants were convicted of illegal commercial fishing. The alleged offense occurred on August 21, 1967, in a portion of Red Bluff Bay closed to commercial salmon fishing.1 The sentences imposed consisted of substantial fines, suspension of appellants’ commercial fishing licenses, and confiscation of the proceeds from a quantity of fish which appellants had caught.2

This appeal is brought on the grounds that the district court committed prejudicial error in admitting evidence of an experiment which had been conducted by personnel of…