Commonwealth v. Lewis

MONCURE), P-,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendants in error, with several others, were indicted in the County court of Middlesex county, on the 24th day of December 1874, for unlawfully taking and catching oysters with dredges and scrapes, in the waters within the jurisdiction of this commonwealth, and in the county aforesaid; the said defendants being then and there non-residents of the state of Virginia. The indictment was founded on section 22 of-chapter 333 of the Acts of Assembly 1872-73, page 316. It contained three counts, the last of which charged the defendants with…