Miller v. Commonwealth

This is a criminal prosecution for unlawful hunting, which turns upon the right of Mr. A. D. Williams to prohibit others from hunting (fowling) between high and low-water marks along that part of his Presque Isle plantation which lies on the tidal reaches of James river about opposite the “Shirley” pier, and approximately one-fourth of a mile above the terminus of the Tidewater and Western Railway (now abandoned) at Bermuda Hundred.

The material parts of section 49, chapter 247, Acts 1930 (§3305 (50), Michie’s Code Va., 1930), under which the warrant in the case was issued, reads:

“Any person…