Taylor v. State

Greenleaf Taylor was indicted in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel county on the charge that he, not having been licensed according to law, did employ a certain boat called a bugeye in taking oysters with an instrument called a “ scoop,” within the waters of Chesapeake Bay, and not within the body of any county. He pleaded to the jurisdiction of thei Court, and averred in his plea that he was, and for eighteen years had been, a citizen of Talbot county, and had been a resident thereof for more than twelve months next preceding the taking of the oysters, and that the place where they were…