State v. Hill
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Itawamba county. Hon. J. A. Mitchell, Judge. Jim Hill was indicted on the charge of violating the game laws. A peremptory instruction was given for the defendant and the state appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Itawamba county. Hon. J. A. Mitchell, Judge. Jim Hill was indicted on the charge of violating the game laws. A peremptory instruction was given for the defendant and the state appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The board of supervisors is given special authority by Code 1906, §§ 2305, 2306, 2307 and 2309, to regulate or prohibit hunting and fishing, and the board may do this so as to affect residents of the very county itself. In other words, the board of supervisors of Itawamba county could have prohibited hunting and fishing in…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The appellee, Jim Hill, was charged in an affidavit before a justice of the peace with violating an ordinance •of the board of supervisors of Itawamba county prohibiting non-residents from fishing in the 'waters of that •county, and was convicted, and appealed to the circuit court, where he was tried and acquitted, and from that judgment the state prosecutes this appeal.
The case was tried on an agreed state of facts, as follows:
“It is agreed by and between Greorge T. Mitchell, district attorney, for the state, and Clayton, Mitchell & Clayton, attorneys for the defendant, that the following is…
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