Hayes v. Territory
Washington Territory
Error, to Second Judicial District, holding terms at Olym- These plaintiffs in error were held to answer for a violation! of the game law, viz : hunting and pursuing deer with dogs in the county of Thurston.
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Error, to Second Judicial District, holding terms at Olym- These plaintiffs in error were held to answer for a violation! of the game law, viz : hunting and pursuing deer with dogs in the county of Thurston. Upon the impaneling of the Grand Jury, it was found by examination of the individual members thereof that Agnes W. Prather and A. P. Elliott were each married women, residing: with their husbands, and John McPeavy, foreman of the Grand jury, and E. L. Willey and John T. Kelly, individual members-thereof, were residents of Mason County, a political division of Washington Territory to which…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Greene, Chief Justice.
By this record there are presented to. us but two questions which we deem worth while to consider. They are questions as to the validity of the game law, upon which this indictment was framed, and as to the validity of the indictment found by a Grand Jury composed in part of married women.
The game law in question restricted hunting in five counties only. It is contended that, for this reason, it is inconsistent with that inhibition in the Organic Act which forbids the Legislature from granting special privileges. But the provisions of this game law fall without…
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