Dupree v. State

This ease raises the question of the constitutionality of act No. 297 of the Acts of the Gfeneral Assembly of 1931. The appellant was prosecuted and convicted of unlawfully killing a squirrel under § 5 of act 160 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1927, by which it was made unlawful to kill squirrels in any county in this State except between the dates of May 15th to June 15th, both inclusive, and October 1st to January 1st, both inclusive. The defendant defended on the ground that the act of 1927 had been superseded by act 143 of the Acts of 1929 as amended by act No. 297 of the Acts of…